[Wine] Installing .msiexec file

[Robert Benjamin]

       Thanks dimesio. The solitaire is fine with win 98 but tried XP 
with the .msi file and get no installer at all no matter what I do. A 
bit discouraging since I read that wine will run the msi file. Thanks 
again.             Bob

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>>I have a Solitaire game here (exe file) 
>>and you experts told me to get the installer to work, set the emulator 
>>in wine to Win 98. Did that and it's fine. Will that matter with the msi 
>>file. 
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>It will matter if the app requires a newer version of Windows, which is likely. Set it back to XP and see what happens.
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>Windows versions can be set on a per-app basis in winecfg. Add your solitaire game to the Applications tab, select it, and set the Windows version just for that game. Keep the default global setting as XP, because that works best for most apps.
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