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On Tuesday 10 July 2007 15:41, John Hansen wrote: > Jonathan, > > Thanks for your helpful comments. > > The Windows programmes which I need to use are: > > TaxCalc > > Fairshares (by Updata) > > Autoroute > > Quicken > > The options for Quicken are Gnucash,Grisbi, Kmymoney, Moneydance and > maybe others. These options > are no doubt excellent but do not allow me readily to transfer my > Quicken files. > For TaxCalc I have not found an alternative nor have I for Fairshares > that monitor our share portfolio. > > John If you really need to run those programs, then the only real answer is to continue to use Windows in some form or another John. As you have tried the alternatives and they were unable to import the files, then running Windows - or perhaps trying them under Wine - are the best choices. I would, if possible, either run a seperate box with Windows for those applications or run Windows inside a virtual machine - VMWare Server or VirtualBox perhaps - which allow you to run Windows within a seperate window at the same time as your Kubuntu. The VMs allow you to do everything you would do inside your Windows environment - add/remove programs, browse the web, collect mails etc etc and you can change between the Linux and Windows environments instantly without any rebooting. The only downside is lack of 3d acceleration - but for productivity programs such as Quicken - that is not a problem. Wine, whilst a great project, is not 100% successful with all applications - the ones you mention I am not familiar with (I use it for games mostly). As far as VMs are concerned, there are a wide range available. The easiest to use are the VMWare Server and VirtualBox mentioned, but others include Bochs and Qemu. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html