I decided to start again and delete all windows applications. I followed the direction on the Wiki FAQ to type Code: rm -rf $HOME/ .wine into the terminal and now everything is gone... Just when was thinking how happy I am with the way my laptop was set up all my files pictures backgrounds etc are gone. All of my personalisation of Ubuntu went along with my files downloads... i take it there is no way to salvage any of this? does anyone know why it happened? Im using Ubuntu 10.10 and have the latest version of wine installed. [/code]