austin987, Thank you for your response, but as I said I've already tried that. Here it is without .wine as a normal user: $ winecfg wine: created the configuration directory '/home/grant/.wine' err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe" failed, status c0000005 err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000005