how to open .exe or DDL file

Do you mean DLL as in Direct Link Library?

DLL means "dynamic link library". Only *.com and *.exe files run from the command line or by clicking the icon. These programs (*.com *.exe) make calls to the DLL internally.

Just click on an .exe file in a explorer file to open it

dll files are used by windows programs and contain algorithms and declarations

you cannot open them but you could download a DLL viewer to see what information they contain

I think what our guest is asking for is "how to see the source code from an .exe file".

Sorry, i have no idea...but what i do know is that it is probably not possible. I may be wrong

The word "open" implies "execute". Both exe files and dll files are executables, but their purpose is very different.

dll

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1ez7dh12.aspx

exe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXE

These links did not work or were unanswered (browser message they were not found). Then an error report happened when trying to use Search link in the browser message window:

Microsoft said: Problem has no solution; is "owned" by ViewManager; and gave link to ViewManager company. However, that URL could not be found either. . .

Hello CowAnon:

the links do not work if you click on them.............But,

copy and paste into the address and they do work fine!

stay safe

babybear

Well, I'll be darned...you are right. How does that work?

Hello ba/ael:

hope you are fine...............

I do not know why. But I sometimes cannot click on a link after a search but, if I copy and paste the smaller typed link under the description I can usually succeed. Thats all I know. It just works. If you know can you say?

stay safe

babybear

Hello bb,

Usually when I wish to use a hyperlink, I first copy the address, then call for a hyperlink in the CR4 editor and identify it with a highlighted piece of text in the message. I always go back to make sure that it has worked properly and so far, it always has.

From now on, when reading messages from other people which give some kind of error message, I will do as you suggest, namely copy the message, paste it and click the enter button.

But, although it works, I don't know why. Maybe somebody can explain this strange behaviour. Usually, hyperlinks in the CR4 threads work when clicked directly. Why not in this case?????

What is different here?

Hello ba/ael,

hope you are fine...........

I have not found the need to use a hyper-link in CR4 yet. But will take note and try your way! Thanks

I actually have to do a particular procedure before I can confirm it works for me or not. That is down to short term memory........My short term memory!!!!! But, after reading each post on here I will do what is explained and see if it works. If not I will try something else......................I do that, just keep trying until I find a way, even if I spend half a day reading the 'HELP' section! I know most people just can't be bothered and, as I said in a previous post on this subject, just use the computer as a 'typewriter' to send emails. Thats fine if you are happy to do it. But what happens if something not related to email screws up? It usually means a phone call to ask for someone to come and sort their computer out, when a little thoughtful searching through HELP will answer most things and get you out of trouble? It just takes patients!

stay safe

babybear

babybear (and ba/ael),

Actually tried that, with the same result. But perhaps they were "not open" for business at the time; or the malfunction of viewmanager was interfering somehow. Anyway, I'll try again. Thanks for the advise.

Yes, it is as you say; and now I've seen them. It must have been the ViewManager hang-up; and restarting the computer must have fixed the problem. Thanks again.

Lesson to be learned would be, test hyperlinks (during preview) before submitting. If they don't work, then unlink before posting...so others will know that pasting to address bar is indicated.

Hello CowAnon:

don't know about hyperlinks but, you cannot really test a link or anything else on your email or, on your computer. The reason is, because you are the one who either typed or pasted them your computer 'knows' thats happened and so it will always work for you. The only way to do it, and I sometimes use it, is to send the info, a link or attachment say, to another web email or site you have and see if it works there?

Sorry about the explanation here but I sort of lost my way and forgot what I was thinking about. If it is not clear, sorry.

stay safe

babybear

Babybear,

Your explanation is not clear to me. I strongly suspect that what happened, it that bubbapebi cut/copied the URL as a link (or transformed a copied URL to a link) and then pasted that into his message which was submitted. In that case, testing the (supposed) link in the preview window would have called back the same, "Can't Find" message that readers subsequently got.

If, instead, bubbapebi, had selected the pasted "link," then clicked the "Create/Edit" button (fifth from left) on the CR4 editor tool bar, a pop-up facility would have appeared which included two text entry boxes. The selected/highlighted URL would automatically appear in the entry box labeled "URL:" Above that, in the "Text:" box, s/he could have typed in an alternative link name of his own choosing. Upon clicking the "Submit" button in the pop-up, the pop-up disappears, cursor is returned to the message sheet, and a real life link appears where the "your computer" created link was originally paste. Now if bubba had tested the link in preview mode, s/he would have received the requested Website page, as would anyone else subsequently clicking the "official" link. So it's not a matter of what "your computer" recognizes, but what the CR4 that loads each time a message creation sheet is requested (with "Reply" button) recognizes. So you see that the "testing" hint . . . should have alerted bubbapebi that the "link" submitted with the message was inoperative. But there's more . . .

Based on some additional testing, it appears that when a message creation window and sheet is requested (by clicking Reply) certain tools in the tool bar, including the
"Create/edit hyperlink" button, do not automatically load (in users DRAM) along with the message creation window (what CR4 calls its "CR4 Editor." This is evidenced by the fact that those buttons are not active (as faded) until text in the message is selected . . . after which, when the (say, "Create/Edit Hyperlink") button is used, the tool (the specific edit function) becomes loaded, and remains loaded. What is the import of this? It means that (for the hyperlink case at hand), once the "Create/Edit Hyperlink" button is actuated (activated) the first time to create a CR4-recognized link, then any link, from any source, pasted thereafter in the same message will have CR4-recognized hyperlink attributes . . . and "test" successfully both in preview mode and on the published board. So, in bubbapeli's post, if the first link-formatted URL had been created using the CR4 edit tool, the second one would have worked simply by being pasted as a hyperlink, with or without using the tool. I believe this is a reasonable explanation; but I have not tested whether or not the second pasted link must be identical to the first in order to be a valid link. My sense is that it does not . . . it's simply a matter of loading the tool by using it the first time.

Now here's the links again, created using the CR4 edit tool.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1ez7dh12.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXE

Now I see, by inadvertent testing, that my conjecture was off a bit. In order for subsequent links after the first to be operable without using the tool, they must be identical to the first. With each unique URL to be posted as a link, the "Create/Edit Hyperlink" tool must be used. I'll do that now with the Bubbapeli's second link that didn't work above (as you no doubt noticed). Also, I'll give it a new name.

bubbalink2

Let me know how this info works out for you.

PS: I had to come back for an edit. I had a little problem getting the tool to capture the selected link as it should. Once again that ViewManager error cropped up, so that only part of the selected link appeared in the hyperlink creation pop-up. Testing kept giving me a "Can't find" message until I realized . . . and pasted the URL in its entirety directly into the "URL:" space in the pop-up. It appears that this third-party ViewManager that MS uses in its browser has become corrupted somehow. Only problem, MS refers me to Viewmanager's site, but the link doesn't work and only a "Can't find ViewManager" message appears. ...a dilemma, or what?

Hello CowAnon:

it certainly sounds like a dilemma!

Is it possible for you to send me the address you are trying to get through to on0line for the 'viewmanager'?

stay safe

babybear

Hello CowAnon:

I am sorry you can't see my meaning.

I will try again..................

If I am writing a letter say, in Word and I put hypertext link in, because my computer has just gone through the procedure, it will understand and know the link details, as IT has them in its memory. So testing them by sending them to another word window I open will alway work.

But it does not necessarily mean that link will open at the address I send it to. That is my experience anyway.

Even though you do not 'get' what I mean, I thank you for the rest of your explanation CowAnon. You have taken time and gone through 'tests' to see if this or that will happen. So you do know from your point of view what you explain works.!

Though I have still to look into it one of your links led me directly to details about 'Runtime Errors'. I sometimes get these errors and hopefully can see what they mean and sort them out, thank you once again! I copied a shortcut to my desktop from the site.

stay safe

babybear

Your hyperlinks don't work for me. I get "address not found".

You can also use the DOS "debug" command to view the contents of .exe and .com files, but, unless you understand machine code, it most likely won't do you a whole lot of good. I don't know about .dll's...

The program to open an .exe file there are a few possabilities. You could try

DOS 3.11

DOS 5

DOS 6

Dr. DOS

Windows 95

Windows 98

Windows 2000

Windows millenium

Windows NT

Windows XP (with service pack 1 or 2 or 3)

Vista

I might have forgotten a few, but with one of these it certainly works.

To open DLL files, you need an .exe file....

I hope this helps.

Those are not programs. They are operating systems. The program would be "cmd" launched by typing cmd in the Run box from the Start menu for Xp (for example).

Make sure the exe file you are running was compiled for the specific OS that you are using. When compiling source code, the specific OS that you intend to use to "run" the program must be targeted (i.e. tell the compiler).

Some compilers claim to be portable. This means they can run on any OS. "C" is one such compiler. "C" was developed on the Unix OS long before M$ existed.

The source code is compiled first and debugged. Then the program is linked to create the exe. During linking the various libraries are referenced. The library files cannot "run" directly from the command line.

You can try Windows, Norton or Total Commander and their command -edit- (F4 or similar), and You will see the contents of desired files

I have created several small executable programs in C, after compiling the code I create the .exe file by including all the .asm files associated and build it. An exe file is executable by clicking it and will run the program. .dll files are created by windows and therefore, pointless looking at as they will contain a load of garbled rubbish! I don't get the point of being able to see the contents of an .exe file, as the guy above says, unless you are conversant with assembly language it will be meaningless.

exe is excute file and dll file will be called by it . dll ocurs after windows version.

you can use vc to see the dll file insight.

dont open them and modify. otherwise you system will be distroy.

insight --> inside

distroy---> distoryed

haha, none like to help me.

distroy---> distoryed--->destroyed

cnpower, we are always willing to help you and enjoy your contributions.

Hello cnpower,

hope you are fine.............

with ref' to your spelling and explanations..................

No worries!............They are understandable OK?

stay safe

babybear

If by 'open' you mean look at and read the file as 'text' you can't do that with an .EXE file. While these programs are originally written as text, when the exe file is created the original text is converted by a 'compiler' (another program) from text which most humans can read into machine language (which computers understand but very few humans can read because it is so dense). Many text editors can 'open' an exe file, but what you see is text that contains many many characters that we didn't learn in school - smiley faces, musical notes, and other mysterious hieroglyphs. There are bits and snatches of human language interspersed, but not enough to give you much of a sense of what the program is doing. (to see this stuff, open an exe or dll using MS notepad).

Probably most programs you will run into are written in some version of the 'C' programming language. Some are in Visual Basic, and some older programs may have been written in Fortran or Cobol. But once they are compiled they are in jibberish. If you have a lot of time on your hands, and you understand programming, are really careful, thorough and logical, you can figure out approximately what the original text would have looked like (reverse engineering) for simple programs or parts of larger programs.

My guess is that he wants the source code. Isn't going to happen. We aren't sure yet and probably never will learn which compiler was used to create the binary.

Hello ba/ael:

glad you found it useful. I have not figured why it works but know it does.

It may be each of the adresses (header and the bottom one) use a different script?

stay safe

babybear

Hello CowAnon,

the hyperlink you made above works for me.

It sounds like you have put a lot of work into this problem and I am sorry your view manager doesn't work.

If it is part of office (and I do not know if it is) how about un installing office, or whatever other constituent part of whatever apps view manager belongs to? Then reinstalling it.

stay safe

babybear

It appears that ViewMgr is part of Windows . . . since Office wasn't open when the problem arose when connected; and ViewMgr.exe appeared as a process when I opened task manager to try to get the system unstuck. After the ViewMgr error report mentioned above, I started having general, hanging problems which turned out to be the browser. This was corrected by re-writing the browser to disc. Since then the ViewMgr problem has not reappeared. So, somehow, a browser glitch was causing the View Manager problem, and fixing one also fixed the other.

Thanks for your expression of concern.

You don't say what operating system you're running or why you want to open these files. .EXE files are programs that have been compiled. If you weren't the author, chances are you won't be able to Un-Compile or Un-Link them from the Object File, so if you were to view them, it would look like hieroglyphics. Same with the DLL files. As someone said earlier, DLL files are Dynamically Linked Library files. They contain things like pathways where the program saves files and names assigned to icons, textboxes and stuff like that. I would advise you to not even try to open these files because if you happen to change ANYTHING, even putting in a single space where there wasn't one before, will render them useless and could seriously damage your system.

that is not completly true, if you have a monitor programma you can see wat happens in the machine memory but you have to understand low level machine language ( binair or hexadecimal data)

Sure, you can see what the program does, but I think what he wants to do is view the source code.