to vitamin: the installer would not run because it gave an error complaining about an unsupported call trying to prep the directory (IIRC) where the install was to take place. So I created the environment using the info from my windows PC. (I KNOW....) but I have done this before with ListPro and with others of their products w/o trouble. I runs fine from wine. I can load, modify, and save data files. I only get the normal complaints from wine when it runs... err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window height -2147483648 fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33e520,0x00000000), stub! thats it. Dan: here is the results - just the part where I trry to save the reg data - trace:file:GetFileAttributesW L"c:\\windows\\profiles\\All Users\\Application Data" trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"c:\\windows\\profiles\\All Users\\Application Data",0x33d4f4,(nil),(nil)) trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"c:\\windows\\profiles\\All Users\\Application Data" 520 0x33d268 (nil)) trace:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"\\??\\C:\\windows\\profiles\\All Users\\Application Data" -> "/home/user/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/All Users/Application Data" trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"c:\\windows\\profiles\\All Users\\Application Data\\Ilium Software\\ListPro\\Global.ini" 520 0x33d898 0x33dcb4) trace:file:CreateFileW L"C:\\windows\\profiles\\All Users\\Application Data\\Ilium Software\\ListPro\\Global.ini" GENERIC_READ FILE_SHARE_READ creation 3 attributes 0x80 trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"C:\\windows\\profiles\\All Users\\Application Data\\Ilium Software\\ListPro\\Global.ini",0x33d7dc,(nil),(nil)) trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"C:\\windows\\profiles\\All Users\\Application Data\\Ilium Software\\ListPro\\Global.ini" 520 0x33d540 (nil)) warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"ListPro\\Global.ini" not found in /home/user/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/All Users/Application Data/Ilium Software warn:file:CreateFileW Unable to create file L"C:\\windows\\profiles\\All Users\\Application Data\\Ilium Software\\ListPro\\Global.ini" (status c000003a) trace:file:CreateFileW returning 0xffffffff