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[Sergius]

I'm thinking the error he's getting is the one that goes: "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86(32-bit) or x64(64-bit) version of the program, and then contact your software publisher."

Which basically means you're screwed, since compatability mode doesn't work on that. You might be able to run a virtual machine(assuming you can even find one) that emulates a 32-bit system.

This happened to me when I downloaded the self-install version of TrueCrypt. Turned out there was a size mismatch and the server was reporting a smaller size, making my download manager only get the first 80% of the file or so, and presumably being a self-extractor, the runnable code was at the end and thus missing. Once I downloaded it with vanilla Firefox (which freaked out once the downloaded bytes exceeded the reported "size" but downloaded it nonetheless) it worked just fine.

TL;DR: The file may be incomplete and it's not finding the part at the end that is executable, and thus printing that misleading "your bits are wrong!" message.

If it's a 32 bit program, the 64 bit version of windows should definitely NOT show that message. It should simply run.