ok thanks a lot! it's bizarre, it deleted the whole application - well i reinstalled it. and here's what i did: i copied ole32.dll from a windows installation and told the application to use it. worked! but now i've got another problem. There's a pop a telling: "unable to read local settings.cfg!" Code: whizer@whizer-laptop:~$ wine "/home/whizer/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/T-Online/T-Online_Software_6/Internet-Telefon/Phone.exe" fixme:userenv:GetUserProfileDirectoryW 0x9c 0x32fda8 0x32fdac fixme:userenv:GetUserProfileDirectoryW 0x9c 0x32fda1 0x32fdac fixme:actctx:FindActCtxSectionGuid 00000001 (null) 4 {88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5} 0x7d333f58 fixme:actctx:FindActCtxSectionGuid 00000001 (null) 4 {88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5} 0x7d333f04 fixme:actctx:FindActCtxSectionGuid 00000001 (null) 4 {88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5} 0x7d333878 whizer@whizer-laptop:~$ the gdiplus (also copied the gdiplus.dll from a windows installation in systems32 - in windows it was in a different folder, but if i put it there, wine tells me, it cannot find gdiplus.dll) didn't do anything. any more ideas? greetz whizer.