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Bee King
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Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:49 pm Whats it mean when u try to open an application and its says -  Save this post |
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| Whats it mean when u try to open an application (like sims - hot date) and a box pops up and says not a valid win32 application |
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Samantha J
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| All programs in Windows systems have machine instructions. When you run an executable application, the Windows operating system checks if it is a valid program, then loads it and tells processor to execute it.Not all files are programs, obviously. In order to differentiate if a particular file is executable or not, Windows stores all programs in file format (Portable Executable). When loading a program, operating system will perform some checks on program to see if it is indeed a program.When it says it is not a win32 application, it is because, when trying to load the program file as executable (in your case sims - hot date), some checks for Portable Executable file format conformance has failed. The Operating Sysem hence thinks it is not a PE, hence not a program.If you are sure that the file you have is a valid program, then the problem is probably caused by file corruption. Try replacing the file from the source again. |
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