I ran the command from a terminal window: % wine start "D:\setup.exe" and got the following log: Code: fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100 fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! fixme:htmlhelp:HtmlHelpW HH case HH_INITIALIZE not handled. fixme:richedit:REExtendedRegisterClass semi stub fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETEDITSTYLE: stub fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETBIDIOPTIONS: stub fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETEDITSTYLE: stub fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETBIDIOPTIONS: stub fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETEDITSTYLE: stub fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETBIDIOPTIONS: stub fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETEDITSTYLE: stub fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETBIDIOPTIONS: stub fixme:htmlhelp:HtmlHelpW HH case HH_UNINITIALIZE not handled. fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x33f014) using GetSystemInfo() fixme:netapi32:NetGetJoinInformation Stub (null) 0x33f03c 0x33f030 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (-1): stub fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Microsoft Office 12"): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00001388,(nil),0x000b,0x000000e6,0x300bcf54,0x77ca2c): stub err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"office12setup" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"{10120000-0f00-0000-0000--0000000ff1ce}" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"12.0.4518.1014" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"x" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"unexpectederror" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"x" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"x" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"x" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"NIL" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"NIL" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"NIL" fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETMARGINS: stub fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETMARGINS: stub err:ole:CoUninitialize Mismatched CoUninitialize err:ole:CoUninitialize Mismatched CoUninitialize fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x33fbfc) using GetSystemInfo() fixme:netapi32:NetGetJoinInformation Stub (null) 0x33fc24 0x33fc18