wine users - Jan 2010 - Wine doesn't work with any application running from CD / DVD

I'm using wine (1.1.37) in Ubuntu Karmic and I can't install original
software from a CD/DVD. Set-up.exe won't run because I need
"Administrator privileges" or I need to be logged as an administrator.

I've searched exhaustively for a solution, but I have only found more and
more people complaining about the same problem when trying to run either a game
or any other software. No thread with a solution though.

I found an answer from Holly Bostick explaining the reason for this problem,
apparently being windows version.

> The cause of this problem is most likely a combination of 2 factors:
> 
> 1) The fact that Wine now defaults to 'emulating' Windows 2K by
default,
> rather than Windows 98; and
> 
> 2) The fact that many Windows programs of a certain type, when they were
> updated to work with Win2K from previous compatibility with Win98 (which
> does not have an Administrator), began to require Administrator
> privileges under 2K and higher to install. This usually happens with
> utilities like defrag utilities or other scanners/blockers/repair utils
> that can be run as a service. This at least makes sense, as in order to
> run as a service, the application has to hook into the
> M(icrosoft)M(anagement)C(onsole), which is an Administrator-only system
> application. But I have, oddly enough, seen programs which would seem to
> have no use for administrative privileges require them on installation;
> recent versions of PaintShopPro are one example of this.
> 
> The 'solution' is to tell the application that it's being
installed
> under Win98 (assuming that the program is willing to install under
> Win98), rather than 2K. Since as far as I know, there is no
> implementation of Windows' fairly sorry implementation of user
privilege
> separation in Wine (meaning that, afaik, you cannot become the Windows
> Administrator under Wine), the only other option is to go back to the
> 'good old days' where it didn't exist (Win98).
> 
>  Unfortunately that is not the solution either. When I tried the
suggestion, I got a message saying the application could not run with the
current version of Windows -because it's too old now, I guess.
> 
> Is there a real solution for this? I can't find it anywhere.
Unfortunately I've already erased my windows partition so I'm stranded
in the middle of nowhere.
> 
> Help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thx.

hyperhelium wine tells every application its administrator no matter what.

Current wine reports as XP.  Basically an application failing with needing
administator privileges is hitting a bug in wine user reporting to applications.

You have not mention effected applications.  Yes changing wine reported versions
to either a newer or latter version of windows is  hack that sometimes avoid the
user detection error.