John Drescher wrote: > The best advice I can give you is reinstall windows and never try this again. Your .dlls in the real windows system folder were replaced by > fake wine .dlls. You could try to use rsync to grab these dlls from an > identical XP system if you have one though. > > John yeah i reckon that was a pretty stupid move [Rolling Eyes] i'll have to reinstall xp on it's disk then... luckily i use it only for gaming so i lost nothing important... all in all i guess documentation is there for a reason [Wink] really thnx for the quick reply