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    Quote Originally Posted by justonething View Post
    It is likely that the program did run but terminated itself after it found out from interrogating the os version number that it was not as it expected. Running 7zip would be a good option to bypass the need to use the exe file at all.
    From Chris' earlier research it doesn't seem that it's only a version-lie that is needed. But I also know a little about this software (for some reason I have a faint faint faint memory of it from a past life?) and if that faint recollection is accurate the app that runs is required so that you can actually then view the embroidery files without it, they're some proprietary format, so when Chris and I catch up we will probably need a way to export/import the designs for Mrs P.

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    Most of my life I have been either tinkering or working with computers and rare proprietary software and I am yet to see any that is consistently poorly programmed as anything to do with embroidery machines. The level of effort that some of them go to in a vain attempt to stop theft of their files and programs begs belief. And like most DRMs, it often causes more problems for the people paying for it than those that don't. /endrant

    As stated above by the other gents, either 7zip or winrar is your best bet and if you get stuck past that there is a universal extractor software that I have had luck with previously.

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    just again I don't think the app
    is a compressed zip file I think there's a proprietary format involved in opening a database of sorts, each entry being a design.

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    The .exe file is not zipped or doesn't react to unzipping and yes the attempts at security by those involved in the embroidery file and software publication business is ludicrous and apart from one app totally futile.
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    Are the data files separately stored on the disk? In what format? Perhaps someone has written a DRM-remover by now.

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    Most Embroidery file discs have the data files visible and it is a simple matter to copy the files across from the disc, these have the files locked and invisible behind the .exe file. The crap that gets spouted by the embroidery industry to mostly women on what they need and what do do is unbelievable and nearly borders on outright lies in some cases. When Mrs P. first got involved I went along to see the machine I was buying and the sales lady started on about needing special software to transfer the files to the machine. She got a bit upset when I pointed out to her that it was not needed and we would not be buying it. It was not her fault, she did not understand anything about file management on computers only repeating what she had been told. Mrs P. is an ace at file management now.
    CHRIS

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    You may be able to set the Compatibility Mode for the exe. Right click on the .exe, select the Compatibility tab, Check the Run this program in compatibility mode for:, and choose the version of Windows you want the .exe to run under. You may want to set the other settings on the tab.

    This may or may not work, depending on the .exe.

    This may not work since the file is on a CD, and is read-only (I'm not sure where Windows stores the Compatibility settings). To get around this, you may have to rip the CD to an ISO, and then mount the ISO as a drive. Or rip the CD to a drive...

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    Thanks Murg and to all the others who have offered help or suggested ideas. I recently found an old XP machine and we used that to get the data from the discs. What a wake up that was, I had not realised how far we have come in computer management. Looking at the file management selection box and I instantly saw they were a direct copy from Windows 3 and that was a system I could never get my head around instead using Geos and XT Gold for file management.
    CHRIS

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