{
 "id": "new-executable",
 "name": "New Executable",
 "category": "executable",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "exe",
   "dll",
   "cpl",
   "drv",
   "scr"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "x-fmt/410"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q4045294"
  ],
  "uti": [
   "com.microsoft.windows-executable"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "4d5a",
    "notes": "Windows New Executable"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Windows New Executable",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "4d5a*4e45"
     }
    ]
   }
  ],
  "priority_over": [
   "x-fmt/409"
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "The New Executable (abbreviated NE or NewEXE) is a 16-bit .exe file format, a successor to the DOS MZ executable format. It is used by 16-bit Microsoft Windows, and by some versions of OS/2 and MS-DOS.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "Hiew",
   "url": "http://hiew.ru",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Q483132",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483132",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Microsoft Software Assurance / proprietary license"
  },
  {
   "name": "Windows 10",
   "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/it-it/windows",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Azure Dev Tools for Teaching / Microsoft Software Assurance / shareware"
  },
  {
   "name": "Windows 7",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11215",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Microsoft Software Assurance / end-user license agreement / volume licensing"
  },
  {
   "name": "Windows 8",
   "url": "https://windows.microsoft.com",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "end-user license agreement"
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/New_Executable",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM x-fmt/410",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/x-fmt/410",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q4045294",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4045294",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [
  "EXE"
 ],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}