eugenevdm wrote: > eugene@eugene-work:~$ notepad > err:module:attach_process_dlls "shell32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting > err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\notepad.exe" failed, status c0000005 Error 5 is ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. Maybe permissions aren't getting set right. Try this: Code: ls -l ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/{shell32.dll,notepad.exe} My output looks like this: Code: -rwxrwxr-x. 1 ken ken 100724 2009-09-12 02:26 /home/ken/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/notepad.exe -rw-rw-r--. 1 ken ken 977680 2009-09-12 02:26 /home/ken/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/shell32.dll If yours aren't similar, change the permissions with chmod. You could also try wineprefixcreate and wineboot and see if "winecfg -> Drives" has a valid mapping for drive C:.