So a .exe file is a file that can be executed by windows, but what exactly does it contain? Assembly language that's processor specific? Or some sort of intermediate statement that's recognized by

Oct 7, 2010 · The difference is : MSI package contains your files + install script, and the actual installation is run by the Microsoft Installer which is a part of Windows, and it takes care of displaying …

Jan 22, 2010 · I assume you mean for Windows? "a.bat" is supposed to be a batch file, the Windows/DOS equivalent of a script file. "a.com" and "a.exe" are supposed to be equivalent these …

Jan 20, 2020 · An executable file is one which can be executed; you would run it on the commandline by writing the name of the file itself as the command. On Unix systems, the file's "executable" flag must …

Sep 23, 2008 · How exactly do DLL files work? There seems to be an awful lot of them, but I don't know what they are or how they work. So, what's the deal with them?

Apr 15, 2020 · My final (perhaps too ambitious) goal is to take a hello-world .exe file (compiled with a C compiler and linked) and understand in full detail how it is loaded into memory and executed by a …

To summarize and complement the existing answers: python.exe is a console (terminal) application for launching CLI-type scripts (console applications). Unless run from an existing console window, …

I can understand cmd but not cmd /C. I was trying to invoke a Java program from the current for which I use Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /C java helloworld"); There arises my doubt.

Setup.exe is an application (executable file) which has msi file (s) as its one of the resources. Executing Setup.exe will in turn execute msi (the installer) which writes your application to the system.

Jun 27, 2015 · I just read the following command: taskkill /f /im something.exe I read that /f forces the task to close, but what does /im do?