http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2369
------- Additional Comments From tony_lambregts@telusplanet.net 2004-18-09 11:35 ------- As of version 20040716 the ~/.wine/config file is not created by default but wine can still read it (for now). In the future the utility for configuring wine will be in a program called wineconfig this program is not up to snuff yet.
For now you need to create ~/.wine/config and add this.
[version] "windows"="NT40"