Hello! I recently installed Zorin OS and it's working great on my PC. However, I noticed that double-clicking a .exe file doesn't do anything. It works fine if I use the 'Open With' option, but the double-click action doesn't seem to work (even if wine is set as default application for .exe files). Is there a way to fix this problem? Thanks!
You can try to right-click on the file and disable "allow launching as program" if it is turned on (or the other way round: enable it if it is turned off).
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Ok, that was it, thanks! But is there a way to automatically disable this option for every Windows program automatically?
No, not that I know of.
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Ok, thanks!
I just thought of something else: If your .exe files are in the same directory or folder, you could open the terminal there (right-click on the folder in your file manager > open terminal here), select all the .exe files in that folder in your file manager and copy them, and then enter the following in the terminal (paste the copied .exe files with right-click there)
chmod -x file1.exe file2.exe file3.exe file4.exe
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