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Author Topic: This is the oddest information lookup yet ... a very manual install of an EXE  (Read 3098 times)

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So my daughter is doing a report on World War II and was asking about her great grandfather and I decided I would look up my grandfathers metals. As for I know he got a few medals, but not sure which ones. I remember one of them a bronze star.

I came across this site that is the biggest mess of a manual installation of an EXE I ever seen to date. Instead of just a download with an installer or just run it where ever as an EXE after download they have specific pathing that I guess you need to use and wow its a step by step confusing mess.

http://www.amervets.com/library.htm

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As the software quickly identifies your version of windows you will see a new screen that says "Winsock.dll found. Please select YES". (Always click YES at this prompt when you re-start the software in the future.)

heh nothing like completely pointless messages.

it looks like it is actually an MS-DOS program so won't even work on 64-bit Windows.
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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It looks to be a very old way of ddoing something.
You may want to do it in a sandbox computer.
Apparently it will modify some widows components.
EDIT: As BC noted, it would not be a 32 bit program.
Try to run iton a old PC with windows 95.

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I might open it on a XP 32-bit virtual machine where its contained.  ;)