is there any way to run software that has been installed on the partition windows? if i go on the hd where windows has been installed and then i run a software it give me error.
Frédéric Delanoy
2011-Sep-14 12:38 UTC
[Wine] wine and installed software on windows partition
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 14:23, croccio <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> is there any way to run software that has been installed on the partition windows? if i go on the hd where windows has been installed and then i run a software it give me error.Don't do that. See http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a295d53dd3444f211df2b13312c7767afa2
croccio wrote:> is there any way to run software that has been installed on the partition windows? if i go on the hd where windows has been installed and then i run a software it give me error.Yes, but preferably don't do that, unless you're really sure the software doesn't *require* to be installed (ie. they don't install any libraries or registry components or anything like that). It is still a good idea to copy the no-install-required programs to your Linux partition because they simply work better with Wine on Linux type partitions.