>CoGetClassObject no class object {56fdf344-fd6d-11d0-958a-006097c9a090} could be >created for context 0x1 I've encoubtered this with another app now too. Could you try if the followinf\g works: copy shdocvw and shlwapi from your windows partition into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ Then save the text file below as txt.reg, and do 'regedit txt.reg' Then run the app like: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="shdocvw,shlwapi=n" wine name_off_app.exe REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{56FDF344-FD6D-11d0-958A-006097C9A090}] @="Task Bar Communication" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{56FDF344-FD6D-11d0-958A-006097C9A090}\InProcServer32] @="C:\\Windows\\System32\\SHDOCVW.DLL" "ThreadingModel"="Apartment"