right - i've been playing a little, and now i get a new error (after installing mdac 2.7, ms comctl) : err:module:DelayLoadFailureHook failed to delay load rpcrt4.dll.I_RpcExceptionFilter wine: Call from 0x7b83325f to unimplemented function rpcrt4.dll.I_RpcExceptionFilter, aborting wine: Unimplemented function rpcrt4.dll.I_RpcExceptionFilter called at address 0x7b83325f (thread 0011), starting debugger... Unhandled exception: unimplemented function rpcrt4.dll.I_RpcExceptionFilter called in 32-bit code (0x7b833301). Register dump: CS:0017 SS:001f DS:001f ES:001f FS:10f7 GS:0037 EIP:7b833301 ESP:61fa8b04 EBP:61fa8b88 EFLAGS:00000202( - 00 - - I1) EAX:7b819495 EBX:7b833278 ECX:00000000 EDX:61fa8bd8 ESI:61fa8be0 EDI:61fa8b3c Stack dump: 0x61fa8b04: 00000035 00000035 61fa9b50 7bc26cec 0x61fa8b14: 61fa9490 61fa8b48 61fa8ba0 80000100 0x61fa8b24: 00000001 00000000 7b83325f 00000002 0x61fa8b34: 604534a8 604534b3 00000055 00121400 0x61fa8b44: 60002930 61fa8b98 60002986 00000001 0x61fa8b54: 7b93b300 7b8afd48 7b8afd60 61fa8bb0 021e: sel=10f7 base=7ffb0000 limit=0000ffff 32-bit rw- Backtrace: =>1 0x7b833301 in kernel32 (+0x23301) (0x61fa8b88) 2 0x7b85fd9e in kernel32 (+0x4fd9e) (0x61fa8bf8) 3 0x60447069 (0x61fa8c48) 4 0x604153a0 (0x61fa8c88) 5 0x6043d96b (0x61fa8cd8) 6 0x7bc669f9 (0x61fa8d08) 7 0x7bc669bb (0x61fa8d28) 8 0x7bc2d0f7 (0x61fa8d88) 9 0x7bc2d594 (0x61fa8e48) 10 0x7bc2d7cd (0x61fa8ed8) 11 0x7bc7b9ab (0x61fa9250) 12 0x7bc2d816 (0x61fa92e8) err:dbghelp:pe_load_dbg_file -Unable to peruse .DBG file "rpcrt4.dbg" ("") 13 0x7010a6d7 in rpcrt4 (+0xa6d7) (0x61fa9448) 14 0x6043e069 (0x61fa9528) 15 0x6043ca21 (0x61fa9608) 16 0x7bc6cf9e (0x61fa9628) 17 0x7bc6d02b (0x61fa96c8) 18 0x7bc6d220 (0x61fa9f78) 19 0x90ce4c55 (0x61fa9fc8) 20 0x90ce4b12 (0x61fa9fec) 0x7b833301: subl $4,%esp Modules: Module Address Debug info Name (14 modules) PE 400000- 411000 Deferred mscorsvw PE 10000000-10007000 Deferred rpcltc1 PE 60160000-601a4000 Deferred msvcrt PE 60410000-60414000 Deferred advapi32 PE 60470000-60485000 Deferred user32 PE 60610000-60614000 Deferred gdi32 PE 64050000-6408a000 Deferred mscorsvc PE 65340000-653d2000 Deferred oleaut32 PE 65f00000-65fc2000 Deferred ole32 PE 70100000-70153000 Export rpcrt4 PE 78130000-781cb000 Deferred msvcr80 PE 79000000-79045000 Deferred mscoree PE 7b810000-7b887000 Export kernel32 PE 7bc10000-7bc14000 Deferred ntdll Threads: process tid prio (all id:s are in hex) 00000008 00000009 0 0000000a 0000000b 0 0000000c 0000000e 0 0000000d 0 0000000f (D) C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorsvw.exe 00000011 0 <== 00000010 0 Backtrace: =>1 0x7b833301 in kernel32 (+0x23301) (0x61fa8b88) 2 0x7b85fd9e in kernel32 (+0x4fd9e) (0x61fa8bf8) 3 0x60447069 (0x61fa8c48) 4 0x604153a0 (0x61fa8c88) 5 0x6043d96b (0x61fa8cd8) 6 0x7bc669f9 (0x61fa8d08) 7 0x7bc669bb (0x61fa8d28) 8 0x7bc2d0f7 (0x61fa8d88) 9 0x7bc2d594 (0x61fa8e48) 10 0x7bc2d7cd (0x61fa8ed8) 11 0x7bc7b9ab (0x61fa9250) 12 0x7bc2d816 (0x61fa92e8) 13 0x7010a6d7 in rpcrt4 (+0xa6d7) (0x61fa9448) 14 0x6043e069 (0x61fa9528) 15 0x6043ca21 (0x61fa9608) 16 0x7bc6cf9e (0x61fa9628) 17 0x7bc6d02b (0x61fa96c8) 18 0x7bc6d220 (0x61fa9f78) 19 0x90ce4c55 (0x61fa9fc8) 20 0x90ce4b12 (0x61fa9fec) fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION Any clues about the above ?