wine users - May 2009 - Re: How to deal with the message: winedevice.exe has encountered

I guess I'm late to the party.  I'm getting this error on just about
every program I run under Wine since I updated to 1.1.20.  Even the Wine
Configuration tool makes this error show up first.  What is happening here?

I had 4 files in my ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/drivers directory.

mountmgr.sys
MrtRate.sys
PxHelp20.sys
pxhelper.sys

If I move all of them out, the error popup stops showing up, but what are these
files there for and what problems will I cause by moving them out?  I use Wine
with a number of CD/DVD applications, is this going to cause problems?

mocham wrote:
> I guess I'm late to the party.  I'm getting this error on just
about every program I run under Wine since I updated to 1.1.20.  Even the Wine
Configuration tool makes this error show up first.  What is happening here?
> 
> I had 4 files in my ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/drivers directory.
> 
> mountmgr.sys
> MrtRate.sys
> PxHelp20.sys
> pxhelper.sys
> 
> If I move all of them out, the error popup stops showing up, but what are
these files there for and what problems will I cause by moving them out?  I use
Wine with a number of CD/DVD applications, is this going to cause problems?

Those are all device drivers, probably installed by the CD/DVD apps, none of
which Wine can use anyway. In Windows they would load at boot, so Wine will try
to load them whenever you start anything in Wine. They have been crashing in the
background all along, you just didn't know about it until the useless and
annoying GUI crash dialog was added in 1.1.20.

monkeyslayer56 wrote:
> so is there anyway to fix it?
Disable this new GUI popup via registry. Set ShowCrashDialog to 1 (
http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys )

Thanks for the registry fix.  I was able to move my other driver files back in
the dir and it works fine again.