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I lost my internet connection earlier today. My home network was still up - it's just the router couldn't get an IP from the cable modem. During that period, my CentOS 5.1 install was extremely slow (2.6 GHz Athlon w/ 2GB ram) at starting non network applications - such as solitare and gnome terminal. It would pause for several seconds before finally starting them. The machine does run bind as a caching nameserver - as I've found that to be more reliable than using my ISPs nameserver, so I'm guessing the slowdown was with bind not being able to resolve anything....

...as wondering if anyone had any advice on the best way to set this up. I've tried to install wine and run the Word executable that lives on the Windows installation on my hard drive but that complains that there is no window's installer installed. I believe wine is set up correctly because solitare works just fine. If anybody has any hints, tips, pointers, etc. . . please let me know. Some direction on where to start in the documentation would be helpful too. thanks, Andy

I've searched all over and can't seem to find any info newer than 2007 on getting Vista Solitare to work on Wine 1.2. I did add the two .dll's mentioned on the bug board to the system folder in my .wine directory and added them in the config tool, but still no go. I'm trying to get this to work on my neighbor's machine as this is the last thing that he still insists on using Wind...

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