Man, I love this site and the How-To Geek. He got my slipstreamed XP CD up and running. :)

Anyway, I have a game called SimCopter, version 1.0. There is a patch for the game to update it to 1.2, but the patch is in a self-extracting WISE .exe file. The problem is that when I try to patch the game in Windows XP, the WISE file says that I'm using the wrong operating system (i.e. not Windows 95) and refuses to patch.

Is there a way to go into the .exe file and take the files out manually to patch my game? This problem has also come up with a self-extracting archive for King's Quest on a Classic Games CD, which also refuses to install because I'm using XP.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Sorry for the long delay in my posting, SS. Thank you very much for the advice.

Unfortunately, none of the Unzip programs or Compatibility settings worked. I think I'll install Windows 95 on my machine and unzip the patch files for some games and stuff (I have more than one program/patch with this problem) then move them over to XP later on. :)

Would you recommend a particular program for setting up a Virtual PC, like the Microsoft one, jon? Thanks!