[Wine] Re: MSWord97 installs properly but still won't launch (or save?) -- 3 more data files

Benjamin Sher sher07 at mindspring.com
Sun May 28 22:57:20 CDT 2006


link141 wrote:

> Sorry if you already tried this (I may not have read your post
> thoroughly), but maybe you should try running it in compatibility mode
> with Windows 98.  I've had the problem of a Windows 98 program
> installing but not running, and this seemed to fix it.  In case you
> don't know how to do this, open the file "winecfg" and either set the
> default settings to Windows version 98, or set it this way for the
> "Word 97" exe file.  Hope this helps.

Dear link141:

Yes, thank you for the tip. I changed "Win2000" to "Windows 2000" but it
didn't make any difference. Thanks again for trying.

Benjamin


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