Hi, I installed the Suse 7.3 pro packages of wine on a shared drive (WindowsME and Suse 7.3 on a Toshiba Satellite). For running my Lotus Notes R5 on the Suse drive I only have to mount my windows partition and execute (but not as root) the command wine /windows/c/lotus/notes/notes.exe. It really works wonderfull. With this method you can try the different programs on your windows drive.You also have the possibility to install wine without an existing windows drive. Therefore you have to run the setup of programs with wine. Some of them are working that way,but the best practice is to run them with wine directly from a existing windows drive. Oliver