Questions tagged [exe]

EXE is a common filename extension for an executable file (a program) in Microsoft Windows and other operating systems (e.g. DOS, OpenVMS, Symbian, and OS/2).

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Extracting EXE Icons in Ubuntu Linux

I'm looking for a way to extract Icons from EXE files on Linux. How can I accomplish this on Linux Ubuntu?
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Alternative to "Allow service to interact with desktop"?

I have a windows service (C#) installed on a server that launches every 10 minutes an executable file (C#) to process some images from one directory to another. No interaction is required with any user. Nevertheless, since the executable file as an…
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How to create a standalone .exe in Java (that runs without an installer and a JRE)

How can I make a standalone Windows executable(.exe) for my JavaFX project(I wrote in IntelliJ IDEA), without an installer for my program? I want the user to download the .exe file and run it out of the box, without an installer, even if they don't…
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What's the supportedOS GUID for Windows 11?

There are documented values for Windows Vista to 10. The first Insider build of Windows 11 was just released, and the documentation wasn't updated yet, but perhaps it can be found somewhere in the system.
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Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: unable to load the file system codec

I have created a .exe file of a simple script with intentions to run it on a server however I cannot seem to figure out what this fault means or find any answers online. The fault code is as follows: Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: unable to…
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Which programming languages that can generate self contained windows .exes?

I want to make an easy to deploy Windows application and was was wondering which programming systems can create totally self contained Windows .exe files? As a plus, if the same can be done with MacOSX and Linux from the same source this would be a…
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Merge two exe files into one programmatically

Is there a way to merge two exe files into one, programmatically, so that running it would execute both older exe files together. I found some things on google about injecting code or dll files but is it possible two merge two exe files or to inject…
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Run Exe file as an Embedded Resource in C#

I have a 3rd party EXE. I just need to run this from my C# application. My prime target is to copyright that 3rd party executable from my C# file.. Is there any better way to do this.? How can I do this ?
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HTML hyperlink to call exe with parameters

-Hello, looking for some help. We currently have a winform app used to do approvals in our company. The app sends html emails to the "approvers" who read the relevant info in the email and click on a hyperlink which launches the app so they can do…
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How to compile Python + Electron JS into desktop app (exe)

I created a desktop application using python as the backend and Electron JS integrated with Node JS as the front end. The image below is the file tree for my project. I was able to link up both the python with Electron JS using the renderer.js file…
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Hide the console of an .exe file created with PyInstaller

I want to make my program executable. I used TkInter to write the GUI, and I read somewhere that you have to save your file as .pyw to hide the console when the program is executed. The problem is that after making it an executable with PyInstaller,…
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Imported module not found in PyInstaller

I'm working in Windows, using PyInstaller to package a python file. But some error is occuring: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in File "D:\Useful Apps\pyinstaller-2.0\PyInstaller\loader\iu.py", line 386, in…
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Compile ruby script into exe?

Is it possible to compile a ruby script into an .exe on Windows? I have searched everywhere and I've tried the following (It looked like RubyScript2EXE, Shoes and Crate all seemed dead or abandoned.): http://ocra.rubyforge.org/…
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How to read / write .exe machine code manually?

I am not well acquainted to the compiler magic. The act of transforming human-readable code (or the not really readable Assembly instructions) into machine code is, for me, rocket science combined with sorcery. I will narrow down the subject of this…
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no module named pkg_resources.py2_warn pyinstaller

I'm trying to make an executable file (.exe file for windows) for the code here. The main file to run is src/GUI.py. I found that pyinstaller is a better option to create the exe file. I tried both one folder and single executable file options. I…
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