So, I'm trying to run Windows programs from my Windows partition in Wine, but...

[Zolcos]

I am dual-booted with Windows XP and Linux. I set Wine's C: drive to the same partition as my real Windows' C: drive. In XP, I exported all the registry keys important to the programs I wanted to run, and merged them into Wine's registry using Wine's regedit. I also make sure to run them from the command line in the same directory using "wine <programname>" just like it says in the FAQ.

And yet, all my programs are still complaining about not being able to find the files and registry setting they need. They give me the "first time startup" screens and everything. What else can I do to fix this?

[cirial]

Something tells me you cant export registry keys and import them in WINE. I'd go about it just by installing things again..

[Zolcos]

Originally Posted by http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-903eaf89ed775396f776438ec126ea9336828473

How do I edit the Wine registry?

The Wine registry is the .reg files in ~/.wine but DO NOT edit these files by hand due to the encoding that they use. Always use the regedit program that comes with Wine. This can be run by typing regedit in the terminal. It is virtual identical to the Windows version of regedit and also supports importing and exporting of registry files. NEVER try and import your entire Windows registry, this will just break Wine.

This tells me that the .reg files I imported actually do take effect in the Wine registry.
The main reason I want to do this is so I can play my Windows games under Linux and use my same save files instead of seperate ones. Not to mention that I don't have the hard drive space to "just" install everything a second time.

Has anyone had much success with this kind of thing? I'm probably just missing something obvious.

[cybathug]

Something to do with c:\Documents and Settings?

[Zolcos]

Originally Posted by cybathug

Something to do with c:\Documents and Settings?

I'm not sure what you mean by that.