No idea why your method worked, on my old system even selecting run did not
work. The burn to CD method was the only way to get it to work.
Funny thing is, only some downloaded programs gave that error message while
others did not. After weeks of testing, I could find no rhyme or reason.
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After furious head scratching, bwayne asked:
| Well, now I am really "scratching my head furiously"
I tried
| downloading, saving, and running the fileformatconverters.exe file
| several more times and I always got the same "not valid win32
| application" error. So, to try something different, I said "run"
| instead of "save" on the initial dialog box, AND IT WORKED!! It
| downloaded, ran, and installed the converters. Problem SOLVED!! My
| only problem now is one of curiosity--why did it work that time and
| not the half dozen other times when I tried to save the file first
| and then "run"???? ...but I'm not about to lose too much sleep over
| that! Thanks for the advice Milly--I suspect that burning it to a CD
| and then running it from there, might have worked too.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| What I found when trying to run any .exe on my aging Windows XP
|| system, try burning the file to a CD or CD-RW and then try running
|| it.
||
|| I don't have this problem on my Windows Vista system.
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
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||
|| After furious head scratching, bwayne asked:
||
||| Yes, I have installed all updates. Everything seems ok, EXCEPT I
||| can't run the fileformatconverts.exe file because of the "not a
||| valid win32 application" problem. I researched on-line why one
||| gets the "valid win32" message, and there seems to multiple
||| scenarios that can cause this error, but I can't figure out which
||| applies to my situation, or what I can do to solve it. Help,
||| please!!
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| have you installed all required updates to Office XP?
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|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
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|||| After furious head scratching, bwayne asked:
||||
||||| Someone else posted a similar problem, but they were able to
||||| resolve it after several attempts to run
||||| "fileformatconverters.exe" was successful. I have not had such
||||| luck. I am running Windows XP with Office 2002. I have
||||| installed all updates. When I download the
||||| "fileformatconverters.exe" file and run it, I get the message:
||||| "c:\...\fileformatconverters.exe is not a valid win32
||||| application"
|||||
||||| Per another suggestion, I even tried running it from "SAFE" mode,
||||| but it still said not a valid win32 application.
|||||
||||| Any suggestions or explanations would be greatly appreciated.
