Hello all, reading an italian magazine (GNU LINUX MAGAZINE) I found a software that can simplify the wine use: they say to run on terminal as follow: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybolic/vineyard-testing sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-wine vineyard After the installation the new features will be available on : System preferencies Windows application In the windows Wine preferencies we can set : in General the version of windows (98,XP,etc) in Places the windows drives emulation(C,Z,etc) in Devices we can set the grafic and sound emulation (direct 3 D,alsa,etc) in libraries we can add or remove DLL in Programs we can add or remove programs in Install we can add a long variety of windows programs such as Net 2.0 ,3.0 etc and at least in the Tool we have a registry editor,control panel,Command prompt,etc Maybe that can help somebody to solve problems......