It turns out that dcom98.exe extracts and runs a program helpfully called "install.exe". We can't force ole32 to native for this name, it's too generic, so just remove the entries. ChangeLog: Remove DCOM config file entries, as they have no effect Index: documentation/samples/config =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/samples/config,v retrieving revision 1.53 diff -u -r1.53 config --- documentation/samples/config 5 Dec 2003 00:11:48 -0000 1.53 +++ documentation/samples/config 30 Dec 2003 17:45:26 -0000 @@ -307,14 +307,6 @@ [AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv] "Desktop" = "640x480" -; force it to install even though wine has a newer version -[AppDefaults\\dcom98.exe\\DllOverrides] -"ole32" = "native" - -[AppDefaults\\dcom95.exe\\DllOverrides] -"ole32" = "native" - - ;[AppDefaults\\iexplore.exe\\DllOverrides] ;"shlwapi" = "native" ;"rpcrt4" = "native"