It sounds like your Wine is not installed properly. Ordinarily Wine should install and then when you click on an exe file type it will be associated with Wine and will launch Wine to execute the file. If it is an installation file then it will install the program in a dummy c drive which is located in your home directory under /.wine/drive_c/. It should setup a menu section called Wine or in some cases it will install the items in the ordinary menus in their proper categories if you are using something like Wine-doors.
If Wine is not working like this then go to your package manager and completely remove Wine. Go to getdeb.net and download their Wine which is newer, assuming you are using Ubuntu of course. If not use your package manager to re-install Wine. The maker of Wine is a company called Codeweavers who make versions (Office and Gamer versions) for sale which include extra compatibility. A full list of their products and a database of Windows programs that can be made to work under Linux is on their site. In addition, companies like Google have paid to have some apps such as Photoshop work in Linux to remove barriers to using Linux, but probably more to frustrate Microsoft due to their on-going battles for web supremacy. Depending on your distro there are other tools available such as Wine-Doors and Xwine. These try to make Wine easier to use, but Wine itself has come a long way since I first used it. You can now tune it so that it can mimic various Windows versions such as NT, XP, etc. I think the default is set at Windows 2000, so you need to change this to get better XP compatibility. The best solution aside from dual booting is to set up a VM such as Virtualbox and install and run it inside Linux. This requires three things, a fast processor, lots of RAM and Windows license. When you set this up you get a fully functioning Windows machine running on Linux in which you can share folders, devices, cut and paste, drag and drop and even share the same desktop with separate menu bars, one for Linux and one for Windows. All Windows apps will install and run in the VM, but hardware will only work if it is detected by the host Linux machine. As said earlier, I can run anything on my computer in either Windows or Linux, but seldom bother. Aside from the nuisance factor, I just refuse to accept the need for Windows when Linux has so many benefits and Windows is still Windows and you need to run anti-virus software etc. inside the VM, just as you would when running normally. Windows users note, this is my experience and maybe not yours. It is based on the fact that I almost never use Windows, so my copy is not fresh, nor are my applets such as anti-virus, anti-trojans, and anti-everything. When I boot my XP partition it is such a headache and step back in time that I can hardly bear it. It takes longer to boot, it is longer before I can begin working as it is busy doing endless updates, then it asks me to re-boot every 9 minutes as it has finished some update or another and even after re-booting it may ask a second reboot depending what the update was and I miss Linux features such as the virtual desktops. I have Windows. I paid for it and I don't like it. It is better to bite the bullet and learn how to get the most out of Linux and help developers to produce good open source applications that are what we need because they start with the user instead of marketers. Just my take on dual booting, Wine and VMs. There is only one thing that I can't do in Linux and that is use my music player (8 GB Philips Go Gear) and as a consequence I have scrapped it. My next step is to scrap Windows itself, except I do not need the hard drive space, so it sits idle. Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! Support Open source. <*,)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow! ----- Original Message ---- From: Drmgiver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:19:59 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] help Though in all fairness, just so you are not surprised, I have never been able to open anything in WINE no matter what it was. Justin Linux Canuck wrote: > > You need to install a program called Wine to run exe files in Linux. > Wine is not an emulator but adds a compatibility layer to Linux so > that you can run some but not all Windows programs. Use the package > manager in Mandriva to install Wine. Then when you click on an exe > file it will load Wine and try to execute the file. > > Roy > > Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! > Support Open source. > <*,)}}+< > Only dead fish go with the flow! > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@ sbcglobal. net > <mailto:wittig. robert%40sbcglob al.net>> > To: LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com <mailto:LINUX_ Newbies%40yahoog roups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:00:21 PM > Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] help > > Grantrocket Nlm wrote: > > > ok like you said in a diffrent message mandriva one 2008 is a great > > > os for older computers and newer ones and i run it on a vitural > machine within xp. (go ahad and say xp stinks) ok so why can't i get a > ..exe file to open in mandriva. > > ------------ --------- --------- -- > > If the *.exe file was compiled to run in a Microsoft Windows > environment, then it will not be able to run in a Linux environment, > or in a virtual Linux environment. > > -- > -wittig http://www.robertwi ttig.com/ > http://robertwittig .net/ > http://robertwittig .org/ > .. > > > ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ > Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new > Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta. messenger. yahoo.com/ > <http://ca.beta. messenger. yahoo.com/> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? 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