Today I just thought of a great idea to organize my windows programs - use Program Manager. I noticed this comes with wine, and I run it but I can't do anything in it. I can create a program group but it gives me an error mentioning that it won't work with a Microsoft program manager. It won't allow anything else to be created. I tried a Windows XP and 2000 progman.exe, both of which somehow had the same results (both are different file sizes so I'm sure they're different).
I did try a Windows 3.1 progman.exe. This did happen to work the most. I could create program groups and icons in it, and some of my programs would run. Unfortunately, it can't read full names of files and directories, which is partially what I'm assuming is the problem.
So, does anybody know how to make a Windows 2000 or XP version of progman.exe work in Wine, or does anybody know of a good alternative?
Windows Program Manager
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I realize that no one ever replied to this and it is very old, but I have been endeavoring to do the same thing. I have also found out how to get progman to work for those of us who are just being nostalgic. First of all the Wine native progman just doesn't work and that is a shame. It seems like a simple program to re-create and I had half a mind to make a reasonable facsimile myself... but I am just an old pascal hack.
The Windows 3.11/9x progman.exe also seems to have some issues when you try to create groups and items.
The Windows NT 3.51 progman.exe, however, when given 3.51 specific applications settings in the wine configuration; works mostly fine. The one thing that still does error out is that the file browser portion of the program item dialog does not work. You will have to manually type in your application path.
The Windows 3.11/9x progman.exe also seems to have some issues when you try to create groups and items.
The Windows NT 3.51 progman.exe, however, when given 3.51 specific applications settings in the wine configuration; works mostly fine. The one thing that still does error out is that the file browser portion of the program item dialog does not work. You will have to manually type in your application path.
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My last post was inaccurate and I tried to edit it, but that edit never seems to have come through... not that anyone is reading. I after a more thorough testing, I determined it was the not the application settings, but the library overrides required to make both Progman from Win 3.11 and NT 3.51 to work. All of the 16 bit DLLs are not represented in the "system" folder of the wine. If you place the windows 3.11 DLL files in the system folder, or override the 32 bit ones for NT; Progman and many other programs will start working mostly well. The most important DLLs are shell/shell32 and the comxxx.dll files. Exclude netapi it will make DOS style calls that dont work in wine.
