Wine and Windows programs

[john s.]

Michael A Peters wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 12:14 -0600, john s. wrote:
>   
>>   My Dad wanted to see if he could install Laplink (I think it is) on my 
>> laptop, via Wine. The laptop locked up, so the program wasn't able to 
>> 100% install. Well, after reboot- it shows that Laplink is installed, 
>> but I don't want the crap on the laptop. I'm unable to uninstall from 
>> the program and uninstalling Wine and then reloading doesn't solve 
>> anything. Anyways, the laptop has FC6 on it...
>>     
>
> In the future - I would suggest using CrossOver Office.
> It's not free, but you install windows programs into "bottles" that are
> easy to archive, transfer to other machines, delete, etc.
>
> It's really well done. And they (CodeWeavers) do give back to the wine
> open source community.
>
>   
I'll have to give it a try, thanks.