can i use programs already installed on windows partition?

[JohnnyBoy022]

I am running Ubuntu 7.10 on an external 80 gig hard drive. My internal hard drive has windows vista installed on it. Is there any way I can use wine to run windows apps directly off of my internal hard drive (vista) without installing them again on the external (where Ubuntu is)?

[Offoffoff]

Did You try that? So what stops You? Only one thing - be sure your NTFS is writable (it is necessary for program - as You know). For wine - it is no matter where *.exe is situated. By the way - there is Vista profile in the latest release of wine.

[JohnnyBoy022]

The few programs that I have tried have given me errors (mostly saying that can't find certain system files). I'm not really familiar with wine, when I run winecfg where should I set up the fake C drive? Should I use the one that wine sets up on my ubuntu installation or should I use the actual C drive on my vista installation?