What's your Wine version? Newer stable version (currently 1.4) should be better in general. wine --version Can you provide the details about why and how you install native components like MS 2002 runtime or ie7? If you use winetricks. Show winetricks verbs you used. http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks You may also try CrossOver. It's based on Wine. It's payware. But if you cannot do something with CrossOver, you have little chance to make it with Wine. Unless you are a real ninja~ You also get support by purchasing CrossOver. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ If would be nice if you can report bugs to Wine community. From my experience, you won't get fix even reply very soon. But you still helped the whole community a little bit~ http://wiki.winehq.org/Bugs Good luck for your open source journey~