[Bug 923] - WINE DESTROYED MY SYSTEM!

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http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923

pharouff at comcast.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |



------- Additional Comments From pharouff at comcast.net  2002-08-01 21:34 -------
 Thank you for the responses. The fix appears to have worked. I still need to  reboot into Windows to try it out, but it looks like everything is there.  There are still two files that did not get fixed by decorrupt_explorer, maybe  someone knows where they belong.  C:\Program Files\!$!$!$!$.mm2 C:\Program Files\!$!$!$!$.msn  As for the other comments, I did see the warning about Explorer, and I never  attempted to manually run Explorer.  But what happens when you try to install a program that automatically attempts  to register the software via the internet? MOST programs do this now. The  program I was trying to install is free vendor supplied software from a  lighting manufacturer who registers the users. This might explain why the  program locked up at the time that it did. Everything seemed to be working  great, then BAM! It was probably trying to start the registration process.  As for backing up, all the new files were stored in my $HOME directory on the  Linux partition. I wasn't expecting it to screw with the Windows partition.  While I understand this is ALPHA software, I was expecting this release to be  more stable than the last, not less (especially after the glowing reviews I  had read). Anyway, if your response is correct, the cause was Windows and not  WINE. While I no longer believe it was your fault, I still feel that this is  still a CRITICAL BUG that requires as a minimum some work around for  protection.  I tried the installation twice. The first time I used the temporary Windows  directory approach. I know that after this attempt, my C:\Program Files  directory was still intact, because I went looking for the Office files it  was requesting. When that attempt didn't work, I followed the suggestion that  pops up in the debug box and tried a second time with native Windows.   I haven't done any programming since about 1988, so needless to say I don't  understand the intricacies of c, perl, java, etc. But if you don't have  enough information to fix this problem yet, there should be a way to add a  temporary check to block any system calls to start Explorer and return an  error like "Program Not Found" to the calling routine (or better yet redirect  it to Netscape, Mozilla or Konqeror). So maybe some programs crash at this  point, but at least it doesn't screw up the partition.  If nothing else, get rid of the suggestion to try native Windows installation!  This was my biggest mistake. After this experience, it's my opinion that any  program that appears to run then locks up under fake Windows probably needs  Explorer.  While I'm impressed with the progress you've made since I first tried WINE  last Christmas, I feel that, basically, WINE is completely unusable until  this is fixed. Ever since Windows 98 came out virtually all Windows software  uses Explorer. You can't avoid it. Bill Gates would have us believe it can't  run without it. ;-)    

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