The Portable Executable (PE) format is a file format for executables, object code, DLLs and others used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating...

The DOS MZ executable format is the executable file format used for .EXE files in DOS. The file can be identified by the ASCII string "MZ" (hexadecimal:...

In computer science, executable code, an executable file, or an executable program, sometimes simply referred to as an executable or binary, causes a computer...

being executable – a computer program – containing an entry point. In addition to being executable (adjective) such a file is often called an executable (noun)...

computing, the Executable and Linkable Format (ELF, formerly named Extensible Linking Format) is a common standard file format for executable files, object...

executable. When this compressed executable is executed, the decompression code recreates the original code from the compressed code before executing...

is a comparison of binary executable file formats which, once loaded by a suitable executable loader, can be directly executed by the CPU rather than being...

The New Executable (abbreviated NE or NewEXE) is a 16-bit executable file format, a successor to the DOS MZ executable format. It was used in Windows 1...

continue to be used on some Unix-like systems, on Microsoft Windows (Portable Executable), in UEFI environments and in some embedded development systems....

for an executable (a.k.a. EXE), but different versions of Windows use different formats. 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions use Portable Executable (PE)...