i go into wine-git directory, then i run from terminal: ./wine /media/cdrom0/splash.exe however I just found out that the regular wine does exactly the same thing if the splash.exe is run from another directory. hmmm I wonder why didnt i see it b4, cannot remember now, I thought I did try both wine versions with similar command so it seems it is not just git then. any ideas guys? noting that i did add the cd path to the registry earlier and it did not do anything. many thanks