Hi Clark Thank you for your answer Summary of the pb: >> Both M$ programms start and shout for MsCreate.dir. And it is impossible >> either to open nor to save a doc. (Actually dialog boxes i.e. open won't come >> up) Clark's answer : > To fix that symptom with Word2K, I needed to add the following to my >~/.wine/config file, with the corresponding native DLL installed. > >[AppDefaults\\winword.exe\\DllOverrides] >"oleaut32" = "native, builtin" (I even did "native" alone) >"ole32" = "native, builtin" (I even did "native" alone) >"comctl32" = "native" >"rpcrt4" = "native" > >[AppDefaults\\winword.exe\\Version] >"Windows" = "win98" After inserting your suggestions in the 'config' file, and in order to keep Wine happy, I found these 4 dlls on my NT installation and copied them into the Windows\System directory of Wine so Wine can access the native versions of dlls. ((Do you reckon this is a pb that I used NT versions of dlls ? I don't think so since you copied your from a Win2k ~=~ nt50)) I inserted the same lines for excel.exe (wich is the one prg I first need to get working) Running excel.exe, my error status under Wine changed to : > fixme:ntdll:NtConnectPort (0x40575a30,L"\\RPC Control\\epmapper",0x408513f0,(nil),(nil),(nil),0x40851368,0x408513e8 (120)),stub! > fixme:ntdll:NtRequestWaitReplyPort ((nil),0x40851418,0x40851418),stub! > fixme:win32:SetCriticalSectionSpinCount critsection=0x653c6230: spincount=1000 not supported In addition to this, excel says it cannot access linked objects. Which is new then, even if I already knew that fact with wine. And after this, beeps once more and freezes. I guessed I had to make ntdll.dll accessible to native, but it did not change anything. Nor as builtin. I also tried to changed the "Wine version" to nt40 and still no result. With winword, I get the same errors but Winword keeps running. Only that I still cannot open nor save a document (=the original pb). Winword says "not enough memory available", as previously. But I have the impression I am coming further, and that your comment helped.thx. Do you have any new suggestion ? could you pls mail me your config file so I can see what else I could have to change ? Christophe -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users