jotto wrote: > When I installed wine, I used the Ubuntu Software Centre. I used this to uninstall. > > I copied and paste'd all the above commands and it looked like wine was uninstalled....the .wine folder was missing etc BUT wine is still showing in my Applications menu and if I click on say the configure wine command...it runs the configuration app!!!!! How can this be if it is uninstalled???? The commands I linked you to delete the wineprefix and all menu entries made by Wine. To uninstall Wine, follow the instructions in the wiki entry immediately following the one linked to.