OK. Firstly, WINEPREFIX was not set in the environment, which may or may not be a different problem. Moved and recreated the .wine directory as suggested. (Some 'interesting' CLI syntax there. I'll have to go through that and try and understand it :?). This solution worked, although it would lose any other app or 'C-Drive' info that was already present. Therefore, other than the fact that the recreating of the .wine directory ensures a clean start, the significant element would appear to be 'winetricks vcrun6'. So, I then used this command in the other installation I have, without first recreating the .wine directory. This also worked, so would appear to be the 'real' solution. >From reading another post/thread somewhere, I was under the impression that vcrun6 was supposed to 'emulate/act as' mfc42 but did not appear to be working as such, thus requiring the presence of mfc42 separately. However, for whatever reason, the reverse would appear to be the case in this instance. Either way, it now works with both 9.10 and 10.4, and without having to 'scrap' an existing Wine installation. Thank you very much for your help. Hopefully, my results will help you guys further in identifying and resolving any outstanding issues that others might come across. Rgs, PS. You thanked me for using Wine. I believe it is more for myself and others to thank you and your colleagues, both for developing Wine and enabling us to move away from MS without losing those remaining (niggling) apps that do not run natively under Linux, and also for providing the support and help to overcome any issues that might arise in using it. Thanks again.:)
