On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Evert7 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everybody, i got a question. Could it be possible to use an existing real windows 7 installation (on a separate > partition) as a wineprefix and run programs from it? Not unless you want to reinstall Windows. The recommended (and most useful) method is to re-install all programs in Wine. This insures that appropriate registry changes are made to the Wine registry, which is not compatible with the Windows registry. James