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Have Windows 7 running on Parallels Desktop with a Mac. Get "setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application" when trying to download a program with Windows Explorer. I can download from these sites with Vista and XP with other computers.

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Have Windows 7 running on Parallels Desktop with a Mac. Get "setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application" when trying to download a program with Windows Explorer. I can download from these sites with Vista and XP with other computers. Now I can't download programs that are supposed to fix the problem! including FoxFire

Have Windows 7 running on Parallels Desktop with a Mac. Get "setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application" when trying to download a program with Windows Explorer. I can download from these sites with Vista and XP with other computers. Now I can't download programs that are supposed to fix the problem! including FoxFire

Isisombulu esikhethiweyo

Try to download from this site:

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Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

Try to download from this site:

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That did not work. Think IE has something to do with it.

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Did you try to download the program as a Mac user and not via Windows?

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Downloaded from the Mac side and tried to open in windows, same message. I have Firefox on the Mac.

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Do you have any anti-virus software running that might corrupt such downloads?

Do you have problems with downloading other files?

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I have AVG on all three windows programs and and computers , only IE 9 or Windows 7 has the problem. I can't download anything now on IE 9 or run it on Windows 7 (except Win update files).