Aah, repetition! Or echo? vitamin, thank you, I am beginning to understand it, finally. My next question was what exactly are wine prefixes? Then went searching and got here: http://www.winehq.org/search/?cx=partner-pub-0971840239976722%3Aw9sqbcsxtyf&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=wineprefixes&siteurl=www.winehq.org%2Fdocs%2Fwineusr-guide%2Fwineserver-command-line-options#1293 and found the same question on the third post here: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=9657&sid=940072f62c7f7a22a4ea124db3622534 >From what I have been reading, it seems that I have to create a separate folder for each app, or instance of it, is that true? I am having a problem, created folder /home/user/.wine/abc then created launcher with the command WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.wine/abc wine spider.exe and got an error :( what-did-I-miss? ...more reading require, eh?