Trying to run a windows program on mac. Any ideas?

Hey guys-
Thanks for all your help and all that stuff. What I've been trying to do is run a couple .exe files that are (obviously) designed to work on windows. I have tried wine and playonmac with no success- do you guys have any free ideas? Also, winebottler does not support running a single exe file. Plz help me out here, because i really could use this for work purposes! Also, here are my computer specs: Mac air 13in 128gb hdd 8gb ram i7 proccessor.

What software are you trying to run?  That's the key question.  "Free" Windows emulators like WINE and all the programs built on top of them (including proprietary ones like Crossover) usually provide an emulated WinXP environment as the most up to date environment they support.  And usually Windows95 as the oldest one they support, if I remember correctly.  Anything outside of those limits, or requiring specialty drivers not available in the OS installation, often cannot be made to work (or at least made to work properly).
Therefore, if the program you want to run requires an environment any newer than WinXP, you are going to be SOL for a free solution.  You can still get a free virtual machine program (a la VirtualBox) but you will need to pay for a Windows license.

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