I have a legacy windows program that I use for my genealogy hobby.
The program installed fine and runs.
The problem is that there is a patch (.exe) file that I try to run. The patch starts executing fine, but then gives an error message that 'Product Not Found'. It can't find the legacy program.
I am thinking that it may have something to do with the Windows registry. That it can't find the installation location.
Anyone that has dealt with this kind of problem have any suggestions?
OK. I have found a work around.
I copied the patched executable from the windows machine to the Linux machine, after backing up the original.
The original version and environment, was installed with the installation media. This seems to have updated the executable to the patched version
Things seem to be working. The program displays that it is the patched version.
But if anyone has messed around with using Windows regedit to scan and/or edit the Windows registry database on WINE of Linux. I would like to know and collaborate. With the number of people jumping ship from Windows to a Linux distribution. There are going to be a lot of questions like this.
Maybe start a category specifically to help make the transition from Windows applications easier.
