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Cygwin is a POSIX emulator layer for windows, it can be very handy for running most of Linux useful tools !, I had a long struggle installing Linux on my machine because all my HDDs are dynamic! (which is a big pain in the ass, luckily Linux now support those drives) so I had to find an alternative, and that was Cygwin.
I used it to run some tools such as NS2 network emulator and SSH, I thought I’d take this a step further and run a Linux desktop on it to make it more user friendly, finding gnome libraries was a hopeless case ! so i went for KDE, and I thought sharing the experience would be useful for the fact that finding a way to do it was really annoying :S, so here you go, the steps:
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I found accidentally a nice tool to read Linux partitions under windows. I’m gear to try it, join me by your feedback

The program called DiskInternals
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I faced the problem to install XP over Ubuntu, and as you know our usual source of problems is M$, their NTLOADER overwrites the Master Boot Sector MBR without any detection for other Operating systems, so the grub loader will disappear

If you download Linux after windows the grub loader will detect the existence of windows , but not the other way, to fix the problem after installing Windows, you have to :
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Now you can exploit the benefits of the powerful stable linux operating systems and use in the same time your favorite windows programs with the .exe extension

You just need to install a program which is called wine by writing the following command in your terminal
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On Ubuntu there are many ways to do that, one of them -which i prefer- is modifying the menu.lst

1. Open a terminal.
2. Write cd /boot
3. Write cd grub
4. Write sudo gedit menu.lst
5. Enter your password if you are asked to.
6. you will see a text file opened with gedit -the default text editor in Gnome desktop.

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