I got it but man, it's not obvious.

First I've given up on 9 Zip. No matter what I did it does nothing with this file so I uninstalled it.

I'm going to give a step by step for anybody with the same problem.

For 7 zip I moved the download from my Downloads folder (Why? Who knows) to my Documents folder. Now 7 zip sees it.

I clicked the file so it's highlighted and hit the Extract icon in the menu bar. Sounds pretty obvious, right? Oh, no it isn't. It created a folder so I thought Aha, got it. I go back to File Explorer and that folder is empty! Properties show zero bytes. !$%&**($.

Back up and try something else. I'm back in 7 zip's window. I right clicked the file this time and in that menu is Extract. That worked. Why doesn't the Extract button on the menu bar work? Who knows.

Back to File Explorer, I open that folder and...nothing shows.

Grrrrr. Back to 7 zip. From within it's window I double click the folder, it opens and there's the file but...IT'S STILL ZIPPED!! This time I right clicked the file and at the top of the menu is Open. What the hell, I clicked it and viola it opened and now I finally, finally have my Jbridge .exe file.

Damn, Sam.

Again for the zillionth time, you have to turn yourself into a teenaged hacker to understand this stuff. Have patience Grasshopper, maybe a beer or two, set aside a half day of your life because you have nothing better to do and just figure it out.

This isn't regular big name software. This is one guy sitting in his basement who comes up with these free apps to help us all. He doesn't have the resources, he's probably a young kid himself and he's trying to help his friends who are ALREADY VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE TEENAGE HACKERS. That means they know way more than us old farts will ever learn so this is nothing to them.

I want to really rant but it's a freebie, use at your own risk, yada yada.

Hope this helps somebody.

Bob

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