Wine and Office and the Windows Registry

newboydan · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 16

Okay, so I'm asking you guys since your far more helpful that the wineHQ site (which says "get codeweavers"...)

So I have Wine 20040716, and I followed the very helpful guide to setting up IE (I did the second route that didn't involve playing with the registry). Now I'm trying to install Word (yes, for the macros...) or more precisely, Office 2000. I'm using fake_windows.

The installation process starts but halfway through the install phase, I get:

Internal Error 2103

Googling tells me

2103 Could not resolve path for shell folder [2].

And also that I should check
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

is set to

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

However, it already is. This makes me think its a problem with the registry being seen by my wine setup, rather than a particular problem related to this exact error.

---some observed problems that may or may not be related---

I've noticed that wine doesn't always get the number of \'s correct: for iesetup, for instance, it tries to install to c:\\Program Files\Internet Explorer (in the install dialog box - you have to change that to c:\Program Files\...). Also, the regedit program that comes with wine is giving strange values. When viewed from the tree structure, the values look like:

c:\\Windows\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp"

However, if you edit them, you see:

c:\Windows\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp

(Notice the extra \ in the first one)

My guess is that Wine is seeing the registry wrong, though I don't know how to fix it.

Could anyone shed some light on this? Is that how the registry looks to people who have working wine/office?

Thanks a lot in advance!!

newboydan · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 16

Could someone try running regedit and see if they have the problem I described, with the extra backslash?

Just that would help me know where to start looking for the problem...

(Apart from the ie6 setup, this is a new install if wine)

Sipi · Guru Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 406 Location: Hungary

I think extra \ is not a problem. \ is a special character in Linux, so to give it as parameter to a program, you have to show that you want the character "\", and not an escaping char. That's why Wine's registry contains \\-s.

So, I think the problem should be somewhere else...

Sipi

newboydan · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 16

Thanks, I'd noticed that (for example, in .wine/config). But it was that the \'s weren't consistent that I was worried about.

eg.

c:\\Windows\All Users\...

But I don't think I'm going to find an answer to how to fix this. I'll just try again several releases later and hope it works...

anggarda · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 41

Good Day, newboydan.

Just so you know, I got the same error too.

I'm running wine-20040716

I'll removing the current installation and I'm going to try other other wine releases and see what happens.

Fingers crossed.

xef · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:31 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem.

You can run the regedit with the command