stimpak wrote: > now firstly I need to ask if its possible to compress ./wine/ and replace it after i've reinstalled wine in a new clean system? Yes. stimpak wrote: > is there anything that i need to pay special care of? No if you use normal *NIX tools (tar, gzip, bzip, etc) that can archive / extract directories, files, symlinks. The only thing you forgetting are desktop & menu links. You'll need ~/.config/menus and ~/.local dirs as well. The Wine relevant parts that is. stimpak wrote: > and secondly wouldnt be great if wine had a nice automated way of being compressed itself No, there are already lots of tools for that. No need to invent another wheel.