> ... i can't even get the reason installer to launch. > Ah, you install the windows apps directly from wine ? for the moment I try to launch Reason from my windows partition but it complaints about the missing shell32.dll that is not in c:\windows\SYSTEM I have put c:\windows\system32 in the .wine/config but it changes nothing. (of course shell32.dll is in c:\windows\system32) I will take a look to your config file in order to learn a bit because its a promising headeache party :) Regards Philippe