[wellylug] Plea for help - IE6 under wine ?

[Jonathan Harker]

On Wednesday, 16 April 2003 16:57, Nigel Walters wrote:
> How do you run IE6 in wine ? Please tell. particularly if you do
> not use crossover. It fails to install when I try.

Well, I'm using the Codeweavers Preview version, which was a free 
download from their site (different from the winehq version).

You have to install dcom98.exe, corfnt32.exe, newfnt32.exe and the 
common control update first.

You need the full install of ie6 with all the cab files, as the small 
network installer won't install properly.

Once installed, you need to change wine to use the shell32.dll, etc. 
that IE just installed (this is where Microsoft got into trouble by 
replacing the Windows dlls with IE ones so you couldn't go backwards) 
by twiddling your dll options in your wine config.

Then to get it to actually run, you need to either grab explorer.exe 
from a real Windows 98 install and run it once (because it whacks a 
load of keys into the registry) or download the .reg file from 
somewhere that has the keys in it you need (I forget the URL sorry... 
try googling!).

Then cross your fingers and stand on your head, and recite the correct 
incantation.

I got it to work using trial and error, but there are some organised 
HOWTOs and resources out there (which would have saved me hours if not 
days had I but known!)

HTH,
Jonathan

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Jonathan Harker
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