etwineb wrote: > I'd like to know where wine writes. Into $WINEPREFIX if it's registry or "fake c:" drive. And potentially anywhere you (as user) have access to. etwineb wrote: > I saw that even using WINEPREFIX wine writes in ~/.local, sometime it leaves .desktop files around. Yes that's the standard place for menu links, menu sctracture descriptors and icons. See standard for more details: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html etwineb wrote: > Can I force wine keeping everything it needs in its WINEPREFIX folder? No you can't. Window managers don't know to look inside $WINEPREFIX for menu entries, icons, etc.