wine users - Apr 2008 - Sneaky Windows install through Wine

Hello.  I tried to search for an answer to this question, but found it difficult
to phrase in a way that wouldn't bury the pertinent information in an
avalanche of more common usage situations.

My situation is this:  My work machine has Windows XP on one partition, and
Ubuntu 7.10 on another.  Windows is so horribly locked down that I can't
install a lot of the software that I need to do my job, and for various reasons
I'm forced to operate without the help of the IT department.  My user does
not have admin privileges, so I cannot install most software.

Most of my needs are met by Ubuntu, except for color printing, which I must boot
into Windows for.  This is annoying, so I would like to install some of the
software I use in Ubuntu (OO.o, Gimp, etc.) in Windows as well.

Finally, my question:  Is it possible to install Windows software (that requires
admin privs to install) into Windows, through Wine in Ubuntu, thereby
circumventing the restrictions of my Windows user account?

amake wrote:
> Finally, my question:
> Is it possible to install Windows software (that requires admin privs to
install) into Windows, through Wine in Ubuntu, thereby circumventing the
restrictions of my Windows user account?
No.
If anything Wine _will_ break your windows installation if you try to do
something like that. Besides Wine can't read native binary registry files so
at best you'll get just a bunch of files in some directories. But Wine
won't have any problems overwriting number of vital system files with fake
Wine files.

Ok, thank you!