[Wine] Re: Using native Dlls from original Win2000

[Pete Ricksecker]

sdavmor wrote:
> Duane Clark wrote:
>> Norbert Möndjen wrote:
>>> Hallo
>>>
>>> Short Question: How can I tell wine to use for all missing or native 
>>> Dlls
>>> the win2000-Directory on the other mounted harddisk.
>>
>> The (non) answer is that you shouldn't. Usually that will make 
>> programs work worse, not better. You should generally only try 
>> individual native DLLs when you suspect (or know) that particular Wine 
>> DLL is causing problems.
>>
>>>
>>> And second question, how can I remove completly the
>>> winebrowser-functionality. I want to use ie6 in wine couse the 
>>> application
>>> I use want this browser and his extensions an makes heavy use of it. It
>>> crashes imediatly if it finds out thats its not ie starting. Happens in
>>> Original-Windows to. In Windows it crashes the Computer completly if
>>> netscape or firefox coming up instead of IE.
>>
>> I strongly suggest that you use ies4linux for that purpose.
>> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
>> That will create a separate Wine directory structure for you, and 
>> makes IE run almost flawlessly for me. There is no need to remove the 
>> winebrowser functionality.
> 
> I'll 2nd that.  It really does work very well, if you have to have IE6.

I have an app (Quicken) that looks for IE 5.5 and installing ies4linux 
does not correct it as Quicken still does not find IE.