> If I remember correctly, before installing Wine1.3.8, I deleted ~/.wine directory, but my memory is not strong so it is possible that the problem is there. > > Before cancelling ~/.wine and re-installing again Wine, I would try other ways. It may be interesting a test I did few minutes ago with "sudo". > > Here is the code: > > Code: > claudio@Aspire-8530:~$ sudo wine "c:\\Programmi\\Birthday Reminder\\bday.exe" > [sudo] password for claudio: > wine: /home/claudio/.wine is not owned by you > > > May be you or some other expert can understand the problem combining the above information with the code of my first msg. > > Claudio :) > Cut it out with sudo. Please quit using sudo, root or su with wine. This will break things. John