Share.exe is a file needed to run old Windows programs. Way
back when windows wasn't a huge, integrated, crashing beast, a
lot of small support programs were necessary to ensure things
worked...
(now they all sit in your taskbar, slow down your raging 850mhz,
absorbing your generous 64mb of ram, and conflict with each
other, causing crashes when all you want to do is unwind (you can
get rid of them in win98 using system information (i did and I
never looked back))).
...Share.exe was one of them. Therefore, when you try install an
old program that used to depend upon share.exe, and you don't
have it on your win95 or win98 computer, you probably won't be
able to.
Download share.exe, put it in your c:\windows\command directory,
and then try to install your software again.
I won't let you download share.exe until you understand the above
message.
I figured this out when I tried to install an old msworks on my
new computer. I had it sitting around, and a new program cost
absurd amounts of money, so I try to install it. It says I need
share.exe. I track it down and put it in my command directory. It
turns out that it doesn't do anything anymore, it is the wrong
dos version, yadda yadda yadda, the functionality is built into
win95 and up, but msworks demands that I have it in my directory.
*shrug*
Share.exe
Share was probably created by someone working for Microsoft, so I
will probably get sued for unlawful distribution of copyrighted
material. Just so you know, I didn't write it, I just figured out
why some people need it, and can't find it. As if Microsoft
cared, they want you to spend two hundred bucks on their new Word
program, that has a nice spell checker, but takes up huge
resources just to write a letter. Ok, enough ranting, you get the
picture.
