Repeat question About limewire..please help?

Question

Please help me I download a pc game from limewire but i don't know how to open it up the file is rar and theres anotherone that is exe please tell me i need to download some program or something i'm using winXP

Answer 1

Marta I, There seems to be a process to working with .rar files and I'm going to include the entire instruction set in the event that you will need it along with the answer to your question. That way, you’ll have little problem ultimately downloading, unzipping, extracting, and finally, viewing .rar files.

Step 1) Install WinRAR Software
Download WinRar
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm...

Step 2) Install a CD/DVD Virtual Emulator
Daemon Tools
http://www.cdfreaks.com/software/45...

Step 3) Install three different movie player products of you don’t have them already. Most of the .rar files use these three players.
a. VideoLan
http://www.videolan.org/
b. DivX
http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/...
c. Windows Media Player 9.0 - Don't upgrade to 10 - still buggy.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows...

Step 4) Extract the WinRAR primary archive into its .bin/.cue/.dat formats.
Find the one main .rar file, and extract (decompress) it using right click.
1. Using Windows File Explorer or My Computer, find the primary RAR file. It will have an icon shape of 3 tiny books, and will likely be the only file with a .rar extension at the end of its name.
Tip: use (Window button) - E on your keyboard to quick launch Windows File Explorer.
2. Right click on that single primary .rar file, and “extract to” a subfolder (This is usually the third choice in the R. click menu) Make a mental note of the name of the folder you are creating, as you will need to “mount” that folder later.
3. Confirm “yes” to the resulting dialog boxes, and give the WinRAR about 2 minutes to do its extracting job.
4. The software will decompress the primary RAR file, and it will also auto-link it to the dozens of its sister .r## supporting files.

Step 5) "Mount" the movie .cue file to act as a virtual optical drive.
Now you convince your computer that the extracted movie files are a virtual CD or DVD disc.
1. Launch the Daemon Tools software.
2. A red or green lightning bolt icon will appear at bottom right of your screen in the Windows clock tray.
3. Right click on this Daemon lightning bolt icon, and choose the first “virtual drive” letter you have available. Usually this is G:. Then choose “Mount Image”. Choose a drive letter of your choice… the letters themselves are arbitrary and are just a code pointer to name your virtual drive.
(tip: to view multiple movies, set your emulator to have 3 or 4 virtual optical drives. 1 drive can play 1 .bin/.cue file movie, 2 drives can play 2 .bin/.cue file movies, and so on.)
4. Browse using the resulting File dialog box to point to the .cue file you extracted a few minutes ago.
5. Within a few moments, another dialog will ask you what to do with that .cue file. Choose “Open folder to view files”.
6. Within another few moments, you are likely to see another dialog box named “G:”, and four folders with names like this: EXT, MPEG#, SEGMENT, and VCD2. This dialog box means that Windows sees the files as if they were a CD or DVD.
7. Open the MPEG# folder, and you will find the primary move file in .avi, .mpeg, or .dat format.

Answer 2

First off, please be very careful about Limewire files. You should not use Limewire unless you understand the risks associated with it. And you should ALWAYS virus scan any download. If you don't have a virus scanner you can get a free one. Google Pack (search on www.google.com for google pack) includes Norton Anti-virus free, or search for AVG Free virus scanner which is another one (actually a slightly better one).

Secondly, .rar files are like .zip files. They are compressed archives. You will need a third-party software to extract the files from these archives. There are some freeware and shareware softwares that will handle this such as WinRAR. The exe files you simply double-click on the file and run it. But as I said previously, this is very dangerous unless you are certain the file is clean from viruses.

Answer 3

If you don't know what to do with the files you just downloaded then you probably shouldn't be trying to do it. Most games you download will have been cracked somehow and will require any number of wild voodoo rituals you will have to perform to get the thing to work. That may include running an .exe that generates a code or maybe even substituting a cracked .exe or .ini file for the real one. Also, games downloaded off of any file sharing program are rife with viruses. You can get games that way but it is pretty risky unless you really know what you're doing.

Answer 4

For a .rar file, you need Winrar (application). Generally, and .exe file is self-run but it's less safe than Winrar (since you can virus-scan the .rar file before opening, but not with an .exe file). Hope this helps.

Answer 5

.rar is a zipped file needs to be extracte (unzipped) theres a program called winRar that will do it for ya make sure its what u think it is b4 u unzip it tho is the file size big enuf to be a game? a cd is 640mb> and dvds frm 1.4Gb and an .exe is an executable file (the file that stars a program in layman terms)

Answer 6

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