I guess lounge is the only category where I could place this question… I have managed to convert my lady friend to linux and she’s using EndeavourOS very smoothly. However, there are still some things that bothers her and they are certain windows only programs. Windows has never polluted my compute…

Probably not a problem, the keys might be stored in the Bios. According to this site , you could just run this command in EOS to retrieve the key (if it’s stored in BIOS): $ sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM | tail -1 Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t, I don’t know ^^

Well, I’m not sure if it helps, but the program is this: https://www.daviespublishing.com/dpProduct.aspx?ProductId=1490

Yeah it’s not tested by anyone in winehq appdb, so…There’s only way to know :slight_smile: Most likely it won’t “just run”, you’d have to install some winetricks and stuff like that…

might work with wine, if not, try wine-staging, if that still doesn’t work, set up a virtual Windows-machine and run it in there, that’s guaranteed to work.

Well, I don’t have any windows machine so I guess setting up a virtual windows machine is impossible for me. But thanks for suggestions.

Not at all, at least I think it’s not. You only need it for that program, right? That should work without a key… Not certain if it’s entirely legal tbh xD but you can download the iso from MS itself and just select “enter my key later” or something and then use it for 30 days with some restrictions…

I’ll admit to having a windows dependency … not only the fact that ‘the man’ forces me use windows to earn my paycheck, but I am a long time quicken user and quicken just doesn’t work well on Wine. I have virtualbox set up with a windows 10 guest os … all just so I can use quicken. If you converted…

My lady friend had 2 laptops with windows, but she allowed me to wipe out both empty and now there are only EndeavourOS left on both…:joy:

Nice. I will try it. But there are better things to do than mess with windows. I prefer to go fishing now…:relaxed:

[image] mardi: I prefer to go fishing now… Always nice to see when someone has their priorities straight! :fishing_pole_and_fish:

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Windows XP source code leaked Lounge

[ - YouTube] Yes yes it’s all illegal and bad… But holy crap!! I do wish and hope that Wine devs are taking notes right now on yet unfinished FOSS parts Only bad thing it’s not Windows 7 leak, but still good enough

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