Ah, the forum failed us. I see he linked to https://picasaweb.google.com/104972964932264920885/Wine?authkey=Gv1sRgCMvir7uOtqu7FQ#5612428588964078610 now, which shows that he double-clicked on something in the desktop and a file archiver opened and tried to load cmd as an archive. Plus, he was running as root. So, the advice: 1) don't ever run wine as root 2) try running from the commandline for now rather from the gui and let us know if that works better What version Linux? What version Wine?