Trying to install Oregon Trail from cnet download, http://www.download.com/Oregon-Trail-5th-Edition/3000-7502_4-10301783.html Cnet has you download a tiny .exe that invokes IE via ActiveX to do the real download. This pops up Wine's Mozilla ActiveX downloader dialog (great) which then downloads the ActiveX wrapper (great) but stores it in c:\windows\temp\mozactivex (note the lack of a .exe, uh-oh), and shortly thereafter prints wine: could not load L"C:\windows\temp\mozactivex" as Win32 binary Wine's Mozilla ActiveX downloader dialog just sits there forever, it doesn't seem to notice the problem.
Renaming mozactivex to mozactivex.exe and then running it manually got me past that little problem -- I'm no longer prompted to download wine's mozilla activex wrapper.
This worked better a month or two ago - what changed? (I'd do a regression test myself, but can't afford to type too much...) - Dan
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