[Wine] Re: Winetricks Paradox

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RedWagon wrote:
> Office 2007 Enterprise 
> verdow at TheOne:~/Downloads/Microsoft Office 2007 Corperate$ wine setup.exe 
> fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
> fixme:htmlhelp:HtmlHelpW HH case HH_INITIALIZE not handled.
> fixme:hook:IsWinEventHookInstalled (32778)-stub!
> fixme:hook:IsWinEventHookInstalled (32780)-stub!
> fixme:hook:IsWinEventHookInstalled (32780)-stub!
> fixme:hook:IsWinEventHookInstalled (32781)-stub!
> fixme:hook:IsWinEventHookInstalled (32780)-stub!
> fixme:hook:IsWinEventHookInstalled (32782)-stub!
> 
> The last line repeats forever.  It took me a couple tries to catch the first two lines.  The window pulls up right, but as soon as a correct key is entered it locks up and starts chewing up all the CPU cycles it can allocate itself.  The little green check mark doesn't show up so I'm guessing the error is just in whatever validates the key.  I'm actually considering getting a cracked version just so I can bypass the CD key.


That's normal console output; I get the same thing running the Office 2007 Enterprise installer.

Originally you said it crashed. Did it actually crash, or did you just get tired of waiting and kill it? 

Office 2007 Enterprise takes a long time to display the last digit of the product key and move on to the next step. It takes about a minute on my 2.3 GHz system; I imagine it could take quite a bit longer on an underpowered netbook. The delay has nothing to do with validation; it's a deficiency in Wine's riched20. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15027

You can speed up the process by using native riched20 for the installer, or just wait longer.  

After installing, set riched20 to (native, builtin), as Powerpoint won't start up without it, and it fixes some other glitches in Word as well. There's no need to copy the dll or use winetricks; Office 2007 installs its own riched20, but the override needs to be set in order for Wine to use it. (If you want to set the override for the installer, you will have to copy the dll or use winetricks, as Office's version won't be installed yet.)