I'm having trouble understanding your claim. I'm not saying you are wrong, there just seems evidence to the contrary. When I boot Linux live, it creates a root partition that represents all the files on the cd. I can go in there and change anything I want. It persists during the session. I can install linux programs also. Those changes are represented on the root partition. I'm running Live now, with Wine. I just download 7zFM.exe. It installed it to the .wine/dosdevices/c: drive. Although the Wine shortcut in Main Menu didn't work, I navigated to ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/7-Zip and entered: wine 7zFM.exe Launches fine. Well, now that I think about it, I didn't try the command line thing I did here with Manga Studio. But I did try the shortcut Wine creates and that don't work. I have to restart with that disk. I give my results on next post.