Thanks buddy, I thought I missed something obvious...

From what GHinCH explained I think I understand the thinking behind this program now. The .exe needs to be hidden from the computer so it or your email provider allows the download to proceed. I get that because I've received spam emails at work with .exe attachments and those are digital landmines.

That means Extract isn't the process that unzips the actual file, Extract is only taking the zip file out of the wrapper folder that's hiding the .exe from the computer. There's two zipped files, the wrapper and the file inside it.

My big gripe here and I see it so many times with software help files, is why isn't this the first thing that's explained in detail?. FAQ 1 should be "How to open a 7z file". Of course that's not the case. The person who created 7 zip simply assumes everybody knows that because him and all his friends do so we all should. That's the problem with computer geeks, to them that's so stupidly obvious they don't need to bother explaining it.

That means the Jbridge guy who put a link to 7 zip in the email to me should have explained this. But, guess what? He's also a member of the geek community and thinks the same thing. All he did in his email is say something like, if you have a problem here's the link to 7 zip. Nothing else.

Bob


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