Managing the Wine configuration file settings can be a difficult task, sometimes too difficult for some people. That's why there are some helper applications for easily setting up an initial wine configuration file with useful default settings.
WineSetupTk is a graphical Wine configuration tool with incredibly easy handling of Wine configuration issues, to be used for configuring the Wine environment after having installed the Wine files. It has been written by CodeWeavers in 2000 as part of a host of other efforts to make Wine more desktop oriented, and updated in 2003 by Vincent Béron, Alex Pasadyn and Ivan Leo Murray-Smith.
If you're using Debian, simply install the WineSetupTk package (as root):
# apt-get install winesetuptk
If you're using another distribution, you can get WineSetupTk from the sourceforge.net Wine download page
wineinstall is a small configuration tool residing as tools/wineinstall in a Wine source code tree. It has been written to allow for an easy and complete compilation/installation of Wine source code for people who don't bother with reading heaps of very valuable and informative documentation ;-)
Once you have successfully extracted the Wine source code tree, change to the main directory of it and then run (as user):
$ ./tools/wineinstall
Doing so will compile Wine, install Wine and configure the Wine environment (either by providing access to a Windows partition or by creating a properly configured no-windows directory environment).