Apologies. There was a .wine file in the Home directory, it was just hidden. I renamed it and the created a new empty .wine directory and tried to run winefile. This didn't work and Terminal showed the following: dave@dave-desktop:~$ winefile Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/ dave', starting in the Windows directory. libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/', starting in the Windows directory. libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory L"c:\\windows\ \profiles\\dave\\Desktop". wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x7ee7acd6 (thread 0009), starting debugger... dave@dave-desktop:~$ _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users