John Hunt <jrhunt@iee.org> wrote: : Andreas : I've had an idea (possibly stupid) since keying my previous message. : Is is possible that wine is trying to load USER.DLL from /usr/lib/libuser : instead of from /usr/lib/wine/libuser.so? If so, how could I prevent that? Check that user.dll is neither in your cwd nor in the directory of the windows executable you start. In my experience, at some point both location preceed the builtin dll. Bye -- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------