plugplay.exe missing

[presianbg]

Hi,

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with wine 1.2.2 on it and when i start regedit from terminal i got :
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\plugplay.exe"

i checked it out and the plugplay.exe file is in system32 folder ...

So what is going on...
10x in advance !

Best Regards

[dimesio]

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with wine 1.2.2 on it and when i start regedit from terminal i got :
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\plugplay.exe"

i checked it out and the plugplay.exe file is in system32 folder ...

So what is going on...

The plugplay.exe in system32 is a fake exe designed to fool apps that look for it there. Wine's regedit should not be looking for it at all. So either you set a global override for it, or you installed something that loads at boot and looks for it.

[presianbg]

How can i find what is searching for it ?

[dimesio]

How can i find what is searching for it ?

What was the last thing you installed before it started doing this?

[vitamin]

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with wine 1.2.2 on it and when i start regedit from terminal i got :
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\plugplay.exe"

Are you using Wine's own regedit or you tried to copy native one from Windows, which won't work of course?

[Usurp]

How can i find what is searching for it ?

What was the last thing you installed before it started doing this?

He did'nt install anything - wine.inf installs plugplay as an autostart service.

[presianbg]

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with wine 1.2.2 on it and when i start regedit from terminal i got :
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\plugplay.exe"

Are you using Wine's own regedit or you tried to copy native one from Windows, which won't work of course?

I'm not so dump

About that what i installed before that ... i went to wine 1.3.15 , but there seems to be a lots of bugs so i went back to 1.2.2
Ok , so the fail is there where should be ... just wondering about that strange massage in terminal.

[vitamin]

About that what i installed before that ... i went to wine 1.3.15 , but there seems to be a lots of bugs so i went back to 1.2.2

You wineprefix is most likely damaged. Remove it or use a new one.

[presianbg]

About that what i installed before that ... i went to wine 1.3.15 , but there seems to be a lots of bugs so i went back to 1.2.2

You wineprefix is most likely damaged. Remove it or use a new one.

how to do that ?

[DanKegel]

This happens if you try to go back to wine 1.2 from wine 1.3.15 or so.

The nuclear option:
rm -rf ~/.wine

The surgical option:
figure out which file in ~/.wine/*.reg refers to plugplay.exe,
and edit it to remove the reference.

[aporeg]

About that what i installed before that ... i went to wine 1.3.15 , but there seems to be a lots of bugs so i went back to 1.2.2

You wineprefix is most likely damaged. Remove it or use a new one.

how to do that ?

Search in your .wine folder for system.reg open it with gedit and search for plugplay.exe

[System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\PlugPlay] 1332104130
"Description"="Enables automatic configuration of devices"
"DisplayName"="Plug and Play Service"
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"="C:\\windows\\system32\\plugplay.exe" Remove here the double "" for some reason it happens that they appear again it should look like the sample i show you below,save the system.reg that should solve the prob until next time

[System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\PlugPlay] 1332104130
"Description"="Enables automatic configuration of devices"
"DisplayName"="Plug and Play Service"
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"="C:\windows\system32\plugplay.exe"