Converting windows program to Mac

[ATOMANT]

I am a pilot in training and have a study program that i use on my schools windows computers i have saved it to a flash drive and uploaded onto my mac and i am needing help to figure out how open it up correctly because it is not is says something about not decoding correctly thank you to anyone that can help

 

[parapup]

Windows programs cannot be run on a Mac directly.

If you want to run Windows programs on the Mac - you have a few options -

a) BootCamp - buy a copy of Windows, use BootCamp to install it on your hard drive as a second operating system. You will have to reboot to Windows when you want to run the program

b) Buy virtualization software like VMWare Fusion and install Windows using that - this will allow you to run Windows side by side the Mac and you can run your program without needing to reboot

c) See http://www.codeweavers.com - they allow many Windows programs to run on Mac without needing Windows. You will have to enquire if the program you are trying to run is compatible though.

 

[MacDawg]

parapup is exactly right

You should check Crossover first, it would be the simplest solution for you if it works

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[three]

Another recommendation if you need to virtualise Windows is Virtualbox by Sun, it's free and open source and does the same things that VMWare and Parallels do.