Ubuntu – wine cannot find L “C:/windows/system32/plugplay.exe

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I'm running Wine1.2.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). In my file manager, I can get to the /.wine/drive_c folder, so I know it exists in my file system. However, when I open the Wine Configuration window (either via apps/wine/configuration or via terminal (winecfg), on the Drives tab it shows

C: ../drive_c
D: /media UDISK
(and a few other drives).

However, the C drive 'browse' button is greyed out, so I cannot link Wine to this drive, which in fact does appear in my file system.

When I try to bring up the wine configure page or the ../drive_c file in terminal I get the message:

wine cannot find L "C/windows/system/32/plugplay.exe"

What is wrong and how can I fix this problem?

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That's normal. If you are trying to Browse your C: drive, then do it through the applications menu.

Applications>Wine>Browse C: Drive

or open up nautilus and navigate to:

/home/user/.wine/dosdevices/c:

alternatively you could cd to the above in a terminal.

You don't actually browse the drive from the wine config though.

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Have Wine 1.3.33+
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Pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster and let yourself be touched by his noodly appendage

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You have a chance of finishing the installation with no problem, but if it hangs (Which probably will) in 25%, 50%, 75% do not worry. Just go to the terminal that you used wine to execute wmp11 and press CTRL+C. After that, just in case type wineserver -k to kill any remaining wine related processes.
Repeat steps 3 through 5 until the installation finishes completely remembering that to start WMP11 you need to have winecfg configured to Windows 2003 and after the validation, change it back to Windows XP to continue the installation.
Assuming you got to the end of the installation it will ALWAYS say "You have failed!. The installation went wrong and did not survive. Kitties will die". Do not worry about the "did not complete part" at the end of the installation. It actually finished. At least looking from a functionality perspective.
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You can hear music, add mp3 lists and hear all songs from the list as shown here:

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