"Setting Windows version to winxp Executing early_wine regedit c:\winetrickstmp\set-winver.reg Install of msi2 done You gave the --optin option, so reporting 'msi2' to the winetricks maintainer so he knows which winetricks verbs get used and which don't. Use --optout to disable future reports. winetricks done. " Not sure what this is supposed to be. Is it saying that the developer is getting usage reports by default? If so how nasty is that. I did nto use the -optin option, it sounds like it is --optin by default. Quite disgusting, whatever that is .