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  • noun Plural form of executable.

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Examples

  • As if readers of The New York Times will know what a self-contained executables is … Also, the fact that Firefox installs itself to a single folder has no importance whatsoever for users.

    Reflective Surface - Archives: 2004 November 2004

  • As if readers of The New York Times will know what a self-contained executables is … Also, the fact that Firefox installs itself to a single folder has no importance whatsoever for users.

    Reflective Surface - Runs like a fox… 2004

  • Bundle your own native executables, or call executables that you know are already on the machine.

    polyGeek.com polygeek 2010

  • To sum up: python_2. 4, lighttpd, cygwin and svn contains only win32 executables, which is, in my opinion, quite pointless for a project intended to be cross platform.

    Planet KDE 2008

  • Use separate directories for files that must be trusted (such as executables) and files that must not be trusted (anything potentially written by an untrusted user).

    MSDN Magazine: RSS Feed John R. Michener 2008

  • Searching results in a long list of files that have network in the name, some of them are even called Network Manager, there are x-executables called Network Manager in several different places, but I can't seem to figure out which one I need.

    weekly nathreee 2010

  • In the screenshot at the top of this article we used two spacers to separate the start button and Windows Explorer icon from our two web browser icons and then again to separate the browsers from the other executables.

    Use Transparent Shortcuts To Separate And Organise Your Windows 7 Taskbar Icons | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • It's not very difficult to encrypt executables to make them undetected.

    How Do You Know If Your Download Really Has A Virus? | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • It blocked any executables from starting except for IE.

    How To Remove XP AntiSpyware | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Searching results in a long list of files that have network in the name, some of them are even called Network Manager, there are x-executables called Network Manager in several different places, but I can't seem to figure out which one I need.

    Tenerife day 4 nathreee 2010

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