[Wine] Internet Explorer installs under wine as default Win2K butthen crashes when run...

Kryol okrg at ukr.net
Mon Nov 28 02:04:36 CST 2005


 
-----Original Message----- 
From: xyzzy1 at hotpop.com 
To: kvideoencoder at gmx.net, wine-users at winehq.org 
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:58:16 +0200 
Subject: Re: [Wine] Internet Explorer installs under wine as default Win2K butthen crashes when 
run... 
 
> On Sunday 20 November 2005 14:18, Philipp Ludwig wrote: 
> > Am Sonntag 20 November 2005 09:36 schrieb xyzzy1 at hotpop.com: 
> > > Thanks for the responses... I have not tried this yet.  I am resisting 
> > > the idea that I have to load >250K of garbage (?) registry entries into 
> > > my wine registry simply in order for Internet Explorer to work under 
> > > Win2K.  Is this right?  What are all those values for?  Does any other 
> > > application need all of this? 
> > 
> > Hm I understand you, but... 
> > the reg files have changed; I had downloaded a 330 KB tgz. When you extract 
> > this, it's about 2 MB. 
> > 
> > All these values are the standard windows registry entries which are 
> > created during the windows installation: 
> > - CLSIDs 
> > - document types 
> > - key structurs (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\...) 
>  
> ok... Thanks for the reply.  If I feel like polluting my Wine space, I'll  
> install these values and see if it works for me. 
>  
> On a general note, what does this do in terms of licensing.  That is, if I own  
> a copy of Windows 98, does that give me the right to install copied registry  
> values to my Wine installation from a vanilla install of Win2k?  Isn't that  
> where these registry values come from? 
>  
> Why aren't the necessary date provided by a Wine install? 
>  
> Is there any other workaround to be able to get IE6 to work under Win2k Wine?   
>  
> > - ... 
> > 
> > Some other applications profit from these things. 
> > I've uploaded the old archive for you: 
> > http://people.freenet.de/mf2-online/ie6registry.tgz 
> > 
I did all steps described in this thread but IE6 under Win2k Wine doesn't work. 
I see: 
 
bash-2.05b$ wine "iexplore.exe" 
fixme:actctx:CreateActCtxW stub! 
bash-2.05b$ 
 
IE window doesn't appear. 



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