wine users - Nov 2010 - Applications which rely on WMP6

Greetings.

I need to run a bunch of apps that, as subject hints, rely on WMP6. I've
found a WMP6 installation on www.oldversion.com, yet when I try running it - the
installer says that it's looking for Windows XP or later, and that 2000 is
not supported. It's strange because I've configured Wine to present
itself as XP, and I've also tried to specify a configuration for that
installer only, always with version=XP well specified.

So basically I am looking for help on solving the problem in one of two ways:
1) Managing to make that installer see Wine as Windows XP or later
2) Manually putting into Wine the files / registry entries that presumably are
looked for when an app "uses" windows media player 6.4

Thanks a lot in advance,
 
 andrea

resle wrote:
> 
> I need to run a bunch of apps that, as subject hints, rely on WMP6.
I've found a WMP6 installation on www.oldversion.com, yet when I try running
it - the installer says that it's looking for Windows XP or later, and that
2000 is not supported.
You misread the message. It doesn't say anything about looking for XP or
later. "Not supported on Windows 2000" means it won't work on
Windows 2000 or later. You have to set the Windows version to Windows 98 in
winecfg.