Just found what I was looking for and it looks like John and Charity said the same thing... I was under the assumption that I could just run the applications directly from my Windows partition, but clearly this isn't the case... appears Wine does much more than what I originally thought. If other search and find this question look to item #3.1 on http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-72731b215bbd1ce36e3b84ac7ce114925ce16460 Thanks for helping!!