Comment 1 for bug 190092

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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.