wine users - Oct 2008 - ouch

yeah, ok, but why so rude? [Embarassed]

i just asked for some help because i myself screwed it up on the process of
configuring wine (mainly because i skipped through the howto very fast) , so it
just seemed normal to come here to winehq.
isn't wine exactly one of the ways to get free from M$?

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Manorba <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> yeah, ok, but why so rude? [Embarassed]
>
> i just asked for some help because i myself screwed it up on the process of
configuring wine (mainly because i skipped through the howto very fast) , so it
just seemed normal to come here to winehq.
> isn't wine exactly one of the ways to get free from M$?
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Vitamin got a bit out of hand, yes, but Wine can't really help you
when you've botched windows that badly.

That said, I'd try a repair install. When I last used Windows, it
seemed to fix problems of that sort. Though, you might have to do a
full reinstall...

Mistakes are the only way we learn ;-).

-- 
-Austin

Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> at Oct 16, 2008 1:17 PM wrote
about Re: [Wine] ouch
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>On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Manorba <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
>> yeah, ok, but why so rude? [Embarassed]
>>
>> i just asked for some help because i myself screwed it up on the
process of configuring wine (mainly because i skipped through the howto very
fast) , so it just seemed normal to come here to winehq.
>> isn't wine exactly one of the ways to get free from M$?
>>
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>Vitamin got a bit out of hand, yes, but Wine can't really help you
>when you've botched windows that badly.
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If you messed up Windows, Wine cannot help at all, in a vast majority of cases. 
If you are running Linux in a separate partition and Windows was installed on
the NT File System, you are basically out of luck when you go to touch certain
things.  However, NTHack does run on a special version of Linux :).

HOWEVER, if you messed up your Wine directories, you can fix it by simplying
moving aside the 'hidden' wine directory (.wine in the user's home
directory) and starting over again.  This is much less painful than recovering a
borked Windows installation.  For example, I had to completely wipe a hard drive
using a wipe utility and then re-install EVERYTHING including service packs and
applications.
>Mistakes are the only way we learn ;-).
It is best to learn from OTHERS mistakes, we don't have enough time to make
them all.

James McKenzie

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> isn't wine exactly one of the ways to get free from M$?
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That's precisely why asking for advice about how to fix your Windows install
is not appropriate for this forum/list.