http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4576
Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com changed:
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--- Comment #6 from Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2007-11-26 15:31:53 --- winecfg won't even start if you do not have properly setup ~/.wine directory. It's like any other windows program, that just knows that it's running on Wine and that it can access system directly. So it won't help fixing something that happens way before it starts.
If you think that "non-experienced" users will remove some config directories and just create them - well there is nothing we can do either. I guess they fix windows with 'format c:' too?
As far as missing 'wineprefixcreate' from the list of the icons - dunno talk to your distro packagers. Vanilla Wine does not provide such links.