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Some programs dont work in Wine

Bug #190092 reported by Fred
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
wine (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Using Wine 0.9.54
The software is from Windows XP with SP2 + most updates.

-- THIS SOFTWARE DONT WORK --
Windows\
regedit.exe -- regedt32.exe works fine though
explorer.exe

Windows\system32\
bootcfg.exe
defrag.exe
diskperf.exe
diskpart.exe
drwatson.exe
find.exe
MRT.exe
progman.exe
tourstart.exe

calc.exe - works, but text in buttons are not colored
winchat.exe - error: "The application cannot start"

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Samuel Lidén Borell (samuellb) wrote :

Some of these programs will probably be quite hard to get working:

defrag.exe: It uses hardware directly, this is not allowed under Linux unless you're root. And even then it will probably be hard to emulate.
disk*.exe, bootcfg: I'm not sure what these are doing, but they really sound hardware-related
explorer.exe: Uses a lot of undocumented shell32/shlwapi functions, these won't be easy to implement. There's XPDE if you prefer the XP desktop however.

The other ones are probably easier to got to work in Wine, but do you really need them? Wine has a builtin registry editor, just type "regedit" to start it. And "find" in Ubuntu is as far as I know much more powerful than it's Windows cousin. Drwatson can't be used directly if I remember correctly, it's started when some application crashes. I'm not sure about the other ones though.

Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)
Changed in wine:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Incomplete
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Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) wrote :

Yes, you're right that some of these are difficult to implement since they depend on hardware of the NTFS file system. Fair enough.

Explorer.exe would be really nice to get working though, since its what is used a lot in Windows.

Yes, there is a registry editor in Wine, but the default registry editor in Windows should work too, because it should be about compatibility.
Its good if the default registry editor works, because then Wine is more compatible with Windows applications.
Wine must be compatible!

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote :

On further thought it would be best to report each non-working program as separate bug reports since when/if these are made to work in WINE they won't be all at the same time.

Thus, I am marking this bug as invalid. Please open new bug reports for each program which you find that does not work.

Note: as mentioned by Samuel, many of these WILL NOT be implemented. WINE is not meant to be windows running on linux, but instead running some programs that are only available FOR windows to run on linux. Note that I did not say BY or A PART OF windows in that last sentence.

Also, if you are so willing, the best place to open these bugs is in the WINE bug tracker located here: http://bugs.winehq.org/
The reason for that is Ubuntu does not work on WINE, the WINE developers who work on it look at that bug tracker more.

Thanks!

Changed in wine:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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