Hidden .exe file

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After I unziped a map that should content a program, the .exe file in the map
is hidden!!!
Can anyone help me with this
 
Anders said:
After I unziped a map that should content a program, the .exe file in
the map is hidden!!!
Can anyone help me with this
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What do you mean by map?
I'm not sure what your question is. Please repost with a lot more detail.
 
Anders said:
After I unziped a map that should content a program, the .exe file in
the map is hidden!!!
Can anyone help me with this
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First, go to Folder Options (Control Panel applet or from Tools menu in
any Explorer window) and uncheck "hide known file extensions". Now can
you see filename.exe? Or have you already got this set and there's
no .exe or setup file in there? What kind of map? If this is a map for
a game, check on a user's forum for that game or on the site where you
got the map. Lots of game maps are not .exe files.

Malke
 
Hi Malke! and thanks!!!
Its a graphic software in an ordinary map. Is it possible that my
OutlockExpress hide the file for me? For safety? (sorry for my
swedish-english)
 
Anders said:
Hi Malke! and thanks!!!
Its a graphic software in an ordinary map. Is it possible that my
OutlockExpress hide the file for me? For safety? (sorry for my
swedish-english)
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That's OK, I don't speak Swedish at all. ;-) I believe that there is an
option in OE to allow attachments or the like. Since I don't use OE at
all, I can't look for you but here is some information that may help:

Description of how the Attachment Manager works in Windows XP Service
Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=883260

And here are some of the changes in OE after SP2:

"Outlook Express now has picture handling facilities similar to Outlook
2003. This prevents senders of spam e-mail from determining whether a
recipient opens a message. It does this by preventing the automatic
display of pictures from Internet servers. The user is presented with
placeholders and the Information Bar gives the user the option to
display the
picture.

"[Pictures and images embedded in HTML e-mail messages can be adapted to
secretly send a message back to the sender. These are often referred to
as Web beacons. Spammers rely on information returned by these images
to confirm active e-mail addresses. Some spam messages contain Web
beacon images so small that they are invisible to the human eye-but not
to Outlook Express.

"An improved defense against Web beacons is to stop pictures from
downloading until you've had a chance to review the message. Outlook
Express in Windows XP SP2 will now block images automatically in
messages from people who are not in your address book. This goes a long
way in preventing the verification of your e-mail address for spammers.
It makes your e-mail name less useful to spammers and may result in
your getting less spam over time.

"This feature also minimizes a common annoyance for those using dial-up
network connections. In earlier versions of Outlook Express, if you
read an HTML e-mail message with a picture embedded in it, Outlook
Express would automatically try to connect to the Internet to retrieve
any reference images. With image blocking in Outlook Express, this will
no longer happen -"

from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/ieoeoverview.mspx ]

HTH,

Malke
 
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