diff --git a/wine.ini b/wine.ini
index 1e851f552f975b10c9b24431df02e9ea968c2ca5..594f1a30b8003d4f5c1b19f75489256ebe296e64 100644
--- a/wine.ini
+++ b/wine.ini
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ Temp=e:\
 Path=c:\windows;c:\windows\system;e:\;e:\test;f:\
 Profile=c:\windows\Profiles\Administrator
 GraphicsDriver=x11drv
+; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
+; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole
+; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
+;ShowDirSymlinks=1
 ShellLinker=wineshelllink
 
 # <wineconf>