Apr 15, 2020 · In Windows, an executable file follows the PA format. The official documentation and this article give a good overview of the format. The format describes what the individual bytes in an .exe file mean. The beginning is a DOS programm (included for legacy reasons) that I will not worry about.

Aug 28, 2018 · I am not even the person that built the script. It is git-ftp client downloaded from github for uploading. In the installation guide a step is to chmod +x it ie making it executable but that is linux guide. am using windows so I need to make it executable as well on windows. It is a downloaded script to say, I dont know the type of script it is.

Jul 6, 2022 · I remembered that I used a tool called as where to find locations for any executable programs like this in a console: C:\Tmp\Where myTool.exe C:\Program Files\MyApp\myTools.exe ....

With the 80386, the segmentation architecture was appropriated and repurposed, though the older arrangement was kept intact in limited contexts. That's also where the change-over from DOS to Windows EXE file formats takes place. The EXE file contains the actual binary images for the segments containing the code and initialized data.

In Windows 10's traditional command prompt (running "CMD"), when I go to the location (using the "CD" command) of a zip file, and type "filename.zip", then the file will open. When I go to that location, and type "filename" (leaving off the ".zip" file …

Mar 8, 2013 · start "c:\windows\system32" notepad.exe (above code "c:\windows\system32" is path where you kept your .exe program and notepad.exe is your .exe program file file) enjoy!

Jun 16, 2009 · After creating a .rc file like this, you can use GoRC to compile it to a .res file using gorc /fo Resources.res Resources.rc. You can then use Resource Hacker to add it to an existing .exe using ResHacker -add prog.exe, prog.exe, Resources.res,,, (taken from my answer here) –

Oct 31, 2008 · To sign the exe file, I used MS signtool.exe. For this you will need to download the bloated MS Windows SDK which has a whooping 1GB. FORTUNATELY, you don't have to install it. Just open the ISO and extract "Windows SDK Signing Tools-x86_en-us.msi". It has a merely 400 KB. Then I built this tiny script file:

Jan 27, 2011 · Rather than putting the executable into a directory on the path, you should create a batch file in a directory on the path that launches the program. This way you don't separate the executable from its supporting files, and you don't add other stuff in the same directory to the path unintentionally. Such batch file can look like this:

Does Windows have an executable that I can run in the command shell which returns the version number of an executable (.exe) file? I see a lot of questions that show how to do it from different languages, and references to third party software to write it, but I can't find a simple shell command to do it.