Some programs dont work in Wine
Bug #190092 reported by
Fred
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
wine (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Using Wine 0.9.54
The software is from Windows XP with SP2 + most updates.
-- THIS SOFTWARE DONT WORK --
Windows\
regedit.exe -- regedt32.exe works fine though
explorer.exe
Windows\system32\
bootcfg.exe
defrag.exe
diskperf.exe
diskpart.exe
drwatson.exe
find.exe
MRT.exe
progman.exe
tourstart.exe
calc.exe - works, but text in buttons are not colored
winchat.exe - error: "The application cannot start"
Changed in wine: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Incomplete |
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Some of these programs will probably be quite hard to get working:
defrag.exe: It uses hardware directly, this is not allowed under Linux unless you're root. And even then it will probably be hard to emulate.
disk*.exe, bootcfg: I'm not sure what these are doing, but they really sound hardware-related
explorer.exe: Uses a lot of undocumented shell32/shlwapi functions, these won't be easy to implement. There's XPDE if you prefer the XP desktop however.
The other ones are probably easier to got to work in Wine, but do you really need them? Wine has a builtin registry editor, just type "regedit" to start it. And "find" in Ubuntu is as far as I know much more powerful than it's Windows cousin. Drwatson can't be used directly if I remember correctly, it's started when some application crashes. I'm not sure about the other ones though.