Re: Vista Software Requirements

Randy Magruder wrote:

I know. Just wondering if anything MS writes will be name sensitive
rather than actually looking at the PE header....

Considering how MS has handled "file types" for years, I'd say this is a valid concern. After all, I can changee the extension of an EXE to TXT and Notepad happily opens it!

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