Free Opener, free and safe download. Free Opener latest version: Free universal file opener. Free Opener performs the very same task already hinted by its name. It is able to open more than. Top free exe file opener mac downloads. You can easily get an exact copy of your Mac data in your computer with using this perfect file rescue Mac Software. Cell Phone File Recover Mac utility has ability to retrieve accidentally deleted data. Problem: You need to open an.exe file but you have a Mac®. Solution: You can easily open an.exe from your Mac by using Parallels Desktop® for Mac. I frequently get questions like this from Mac users: My friend asked me to download a file named, but I can’t open it on my Mac. How can I open this file? From a person who only uses Mac computers and iPads, this is a very reasonable question. The quick, short answer is, “ By itself, the Mac can’t open this file.” The longer, more positive answer requires a little background. File Extensions Both PC and Mac computers use three- or four-letter extensions on file names—the portion of the name after the period—to determine which application can open a file. You may have noticed that files with extensions “.jpg” or “.jpeg” are opened by the Preview app on the Mac. Those files are images or photos. Similarly, you may have noticed that files with extensions “.docx” or “.doc” are opened on the Mac by Microsoft Word or TextEdit. Those files are word processing documents. What you may not have noticed is that Mac applications themselves have an “.app” extension. (See figure 1.). Figure 1_Applications on the Mac have the file name extension “.app” When you double click on a file with the “.app” extension on a Mac, the macOS® launches that application. In other words, opening a file with an “.app” extension is really launching that application; the macOS itself opens that file. With this background, it is understandable that the Mac by itself can’t open an “.exe” file because the.exe extension means that the file is a Windows application. The Windows operating system is needed to open an “.exe” file. Enter Parallels Desktop When you have and a Windows virtual machine (VM) on your Mac, everything just works when you double click on an “.exe” file. It feels a little bit like magic. Underneath, here is how the magic works: Parallels Desktop tells the Mac that it can open “.exe” files. So when you double click on that “.exe” file, the macOS ® launches Parallels Desktop. This is just like when you double click on a “.jpg” file and the macOS launches Preview, or when you double click on a “.docx” file and the macOS launches Microsoft Word. When Parallels Desktop is launched because you clicked on an “.exe” file, Parallels Desktop boots your Windows VM and tells Windows that you want this “.exe” file opened. Windows then launches the application for that “.exe” file. While the quick, short answer to the question at the beginning of this blog post still is, “ By itself, the Mac can’t open this file” The longer, more positive answer is, “ This is a Windows file, so you need Windows to open it. The easiest way to get Windows on your Mac is to get Parallels Desktop and a Windows VM.” Oh yeah, and if you have Boot Camp ® on your Mac, you still won’t be able to double click on that “.exe” file and have it open. The short answer to “Why not?” is because the macOS and Boot Camp can’t talk to each other. The long answer will be the subject of a future blog post. Try Parallels Desktop! • • • Kurt has been a Mac developer since before the Mac came out. Today he is the Senior Product Manager at Parallels where he works on both Parallels Desktop for Mac and Parallels Access. Prior to Parallels, he was the Senior Mac Evangelist in the Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) at Microsoft Corp. Kurt is the author of three books and has lectured internationally on object-oriented programming, UI design, and virtualization. Kurt is also a Microsoft Office for Mac and iOS Accredited Support Professional for 2014 and 2015. Outside of work, Kurt has been a fencer for many years, has four times been a member of the US team at the world championships, and has also been the coach of the US team: Related Posts •.
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