wine users - Dec 2005 - Re: Windows apps from windows parttion

not directories, the contents of the windows registry.
I havent yet managed to workout what file(s) this is stored in in win, 
but you can export keys from the regedit program in win.

The majority of programs store keys in /local machine/software/<app name> 
for these you should be able to export the key folders to a text file 
and import that into Wine.

btw, when I did this I think the import function in wine wasn't working. 
And I think I copied the blocks from the text file into the wine reg 
file (look at file in your .wine dir one of them). If your not familiar 
with registry keys, hopefully it should be obvious how these work if you 
take a look in the text file.

Some apps will spread keys all over the registry and you will have a 
hard time to find out what keys it needs. For these (if they work in 
wine) you will probably have to reinstall them in wine, though if you 
really want you might be able to delete the install dir and reuse the 
install dir in windows as the wine reg will get the apps keys at install 
time.

Noah Poellnitz II wrote:
> So you're saying I can just copy a few directories and that might do 
> the job?
>
> */Liam Kurmos <quantum_liam@yahoo.co.jp>/* wrote:
>
>     it should be possible to copy the registry keys over to wine for
>     most apps.
>
>     GuruLounge - MailLists wrote:
>
>     >I'd have to guess "no" on this one. I believe wine
uses it's own
>     >registry settings, so for most windows apps to run they need to be
>     >configured in the windows registry -- unless they happen to be
>     >stand-alone apps that don't require any special files or
registry
>     >settings (some of these do exist).
>     >
>     >I'm assuming you'd like to run programs installed on your
windows
>     >partition like Office 2000 or similar.
>     >
>     >The only way I could think of to change this is to configure wine
>     to use
>     >the registry and drive assignments of your current windows
partition.
>     >I've never seen any references to this and couldn't tell
you how
>     to do
>     >it. I'd be a little afraid to try myself because I'd worry
that wine
>     >might corrupt the registry on my windows partition.
>     >
>     >Jeff
>     >
>     >On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 18:11 -0800, Noah Poellnitz II wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >>I'm sure this has been asked and answered before, but I had
trouble
>     >>searching the archives for an answer. I have Windows 2000 on
one
>     >>partion and Fedora 4 on another. Is it possible from Fedora 4
using
>     >>wine to run applications already installed on my windows
partion?
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>"We're on a mission not a small time thing. . "
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> not directories, the contents of the windows
> registry.
> I havent yet managed to workout what file(s) this is
> stored in in win, 
> but you can export keys from the regedit program in
> win.
You are asking where windows stores its registry?
WinNT and above store it in Windows\system32\config.
The files are binary files Software, Sam, Security ...
I don't believe they are easily read. 

John