Error - not a win32 service

I have downloaded a trialversion of Snoqualmie (a screensaver) but I cant
install it on my Vista x64 system because of an error (not a win32
service)....while my friend who has a Vista x86 labtop can install it.

Hi,

It's probably a 16-bit application, and they cannot be run in x64. Got a
link to the software?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"The Young Ones" <> wrote in message
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>I have downloaded a trialversion of Snoqualmie (a screensaver) but I cant
>install it on my Vista x64 system because of an error (not a win32
>service)....while my friend who has a Vista x86 labtop can install it.

Sounds more like it's trying to install a 32-bit Service - Not valid on 64
bit Vista

"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> It's probably a 16-bit application, and they cannot be run in x64. Got a
> link to the software?
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "The Young Ones" <> wrote in message
> news:5EAAD03A-9AF8-4928-8A15-...
>>I have downloaded a trialversion of Snoqualmie (a screensaver) but I cant
>>install it on my Vista x64 system because of an error (not a win32
>>service)....while my friend who has a Vista x86 labtop can install it.
>

"The Young Ones" <> wrote ...
>I have downloaded a trialversion of Snoqualmie (a screensaver) but I cant
>install it on my Vista x64 system because of an error (not a win32
>service)....while my friend who has a Vista x86 labtop can install it.

Goede Dag

The error message is probably "Not a valid Win32 application". This is the
message you get when Windows tries to load an file as a program (eg a *.EXE
or *.SCR file), but finds that the contents of the file cannot be executed.
This is usually caused by some of file corruption.

Try downloading the file again. Then, uninstall your existing version and
install the newly downloaded file.

Or, get a copy of the downloaded file your friend is running, and install
that instead (since we know it works).

As a quick test, I downloaded the Snoqualmie screen saver and installed it
on a 64 bit Vista machine here, and it ran fine. So the Snoqualmie screen
saver can run on 64 bit Vista, in general terms.

Tot ziens,

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

"cvp" <> wrote...
> Sounds more like it's trying to install a 32-bit Service - Not valid on 64
> bit Vista

Huh? Sure you can run 32 bit Services, on 64 bit Windows!

You might be thinking of device drivers. It is certainly true one cannot run
32 bit device drivers on 64 bit Windows. Device Drivers run in kernel mode
and have no access to the WoW64 layer to do address translation.

32-bit user-mode Services can run in the WoW64.

Of course, specific 32 bit Services might have compatibility problems of one
sort or another, on 64 bit Windows. But there's nothing intrinsic about a 32
bit Service *per se*, which prevents it from running on 64 bit Windows.
Apart from being controlled by the SCM, a Service is just another Win32
process.

In any case, screen savers are not Services; they are executable *.SCR
files. An *.SCR is basically just a normal EXE file, with a different
extension.

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

No - I was merely trying to parse "because of an error (not a win32
service)" in the OP


"Andrew McLaren" <> wrote in message
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> "cvp" <> wrote...
>> Sounds more like it's trying to install a 32-bit Service - Not valid on
>> 64 bit Vista
>
> Huh? Sure you can run 32 bit Services, on 64 bit Windows!
>
> You might be thinking of device drivers. It is certainly true one cannot
> run 32 bit device drivers on 64 bit Windows. Device Drivers run in kernel
> mode and have no access to the WoW64 layer to do address translation.
>
> 32-bit user-mode Services can run in the WoW64.
>
> Of course, specific 32 bit Services might have compatibility problems of
> one sort or another, on 64 bit Windows. But there's nothing intrinsic
> about a 32 bit Service *per se*, which prevents it from running on 64 bit
> Windows. Apart from being controlled by the SCM, a Service is just another
> Win32 process.
>
> In any case, screen savers are not Services; they are executable *.SCR
> files. An *.SCR is basically just a normal EXE file, with a different
> extension.
>
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>

In case Andrew is still around, Snoqualmie has now been rewritten and is Vista x64 friendly. It's now called 'Zen Light' at http://zendogsoftware.com. There's currently only a 32-bit version, but will install and run under 64-bit Windows. The 64-bit native version is coming soon.
-David.