getting patches to work!!

[ohekabob]

sorry for the stupid question. just installed w2k and am in patch heaven. some game patches are exe.'s or zip's. when i execute them, sometimes i get an exe along with a nfo and a diz. what do i do with these files?. I thought i just should drop them in the game directory, but some patches say it should overwrite some files, and this never happens. help.