Thanks for your suggestions, Rein. The "Shell Folders" entry pointing to C:\Windows\Desktop was already present in my wine registry.I'm attempting to run an application (Reason!Able, from www.goreason.com) under wine that requires a registration file be placed on the Desktop.
A guess: the program searches the registry for the "Desktop" directory. On my system the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
contains a subkey "Desktop" pointing to the desktop (eg. C:\Windows\Desktop). Try adding that to your registry.
If that does not help, run wine like: WINEDEBUG=+reg wine ...
and try to find the registry entries that your program queries.
Rein.
Your second suggestion was the most helpful. I examined the WINEDEBUG output (all of it!) and managed to find a promising key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ReasonAble101\Registration. Obvious, really, in retrospect.
There were three keys in this registry 'directory': "1", "2" and "3", each having an associated encrypted value.
What I did was to copy the three values from a Windows install (which had the registration file on the desktop) into the corresponding wine registry keys.
When I subsequently ran the app with wine, it showed the relevant license details in the splash screen -> success!
It would seem the app checks the desktop on each launch. The first time it finds a registration file there it writes the relevant registry keys. After that, the registration file is no longer necessary.
So, what I did here was not adding a file to the desktop, but actually bypassing that step. Many thanks to Rein for pointing the way to the solution.
Incidentally, the app still crashes after the splash screen, but this is unrelated to the registration file problem, which has been solved.
Thanks to all who made suggestions.
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