[Wine] Re: Windows Genuine Advantage checker

Daniel Skorka skorka at gmx.net
Mon Mar 19 00:53:55 CDT 2007


David Dawson <beagleseven7777 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Is there a way to run The WindowsGenuineAdvantage.exe?
> i tried it with Wine 0.9.29 and it crashed.
> 
> What I really wanted to do was run the WindowsVistaAdvisor.msi,
> That proceeded and I got the .NET stuff downloaded and installed, but It
> wanted IE version 5.5 or something.

AFAICT, the advisor will try to obtain information about your hardware,
which will propably not work very well under wine. Regardless of that
you will run into the wall called .NET, which simply doesn't work on
wine at the moment.

Daniel
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