fatal_error FormatMessage failed on wine crossover

[whopperwhopper]

Last month, I tried opening an .exe file with Wine-crossover and it worked perfectly. However, today I tried opening the same program with Wine and then it showed this error:

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Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specifie
d file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: 0024:err:start:fatal_error FormatMessage failed

This would happen in any .exe program I want to open. How do I fix this?

[whopperwhopper]

Hello?

[jkfloris]

The message you get indicates that Wine does not know what to do with the file.
How are you trying to run the file?

To rule out an error in Wine's configuration, you can run:

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grep PATHEXT ~/.wine/system.reg
# This should show:
"PATHEXT"=".com;.exe;.bat;.cmd;.vbs;.vbe;.js;.jse;.wsf;.wsh"

[whopperwhopper]

I want to run the file with Wine because it's not compatible with Macs.