http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27987
--- Comment #8 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2012-01-02 09:39:32 CST --- I can see trace:file:FindFirstFileExW L"C:\users\Public\Application Data\Microsoft Help\{*}" 0 0x10cd128 0 (nil) 0 in the log for DExplore.exe, but can't figure out which magic directory to create. I tried creating either "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users/Public/Application Data/Microsoft Help/{639159C2-B27B-4208-8965-D8A0AEDBDED2}" or "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users/Public/Application Data/Microsoft Help/{4A79114D-19E4-11d3-B86B-00C04F79F802}" but no joy.
To reproduce without any gui:
sudo mount -o ro,loop En_vs_2005_vsts_180_Trial.img /mnt cd /mnt/vs/wcu/DExplore rm -rf ~/.wine wine DExplore.exe /T:c:\foo /C cd ~/.wine/drive_c/foo wine install.exe /Q
This takes 15 seconds and succeeds in wine-1.3.15, but takes 30 seconds and fails in wine-1.3.36.