wine users - May 2009 - browse C: drive does not show all directories / files

I have installed Wine 1.1.21 on Linux-Mint 7 rc1. When I use 'Browse C:\
drive' I don't see all the directories, and files. For examples under
C:\Program Files I only see the 'Common Files', and 'Internet
Explorer' directories.

I am trying to access a vista system drive. I have change the application
settings to vista. I have also checked the FAQ, the manual and the forum. It
looks like I am the only one with this problem. What I am doing wrong?

I was confused. I thought that drive C: mapped to my Vista system drive. I used
Configured Wine to map to vista system drive to solve my problem.

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:59 AM, pelico <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I was confused. I thought that drive C: mapped to my Vista system drive. I
used Configured Wine to map to vista system drive to solve my problem.
>
DO NOT do that. You will end up corrupting both vista and wine.

John

pelico wrote:
> I was confused. I thought that drive C: mapped to my Vista system drive. I
used Configured Wine to map to vista system drive to solve my problem.
>   
This is an extremely bad thing to do.  This will corrupt your Vista
installation, may violate the MS End User License and other things. 
What you should do is install the programs you want to use in Wine, map
the input/output directories to those in Vista and use the programs in
that manner.

James McKenzie

Thanks for the answers. I meant to say that after I understood that C: was my
Wine system virtual drive, I mapped my vista drive to drive E: in order for my
programs installed on wine to look at my vista drive as a data drive. For
example for a word processor installed on wine (c: virtual drive) to edit a file
directly on the vista drive (drive E: ). This should not be a problem should it?