Thanks for the reply. The only Windows programs I use at present I copied directly over from my XP partition into ~/home/Programs and run them by setting an icon on the panel as wine Path to home/Programs/program/exe file Any Windows program apart from these that I try installing will be purely to try it out. Since none of the Windows programs I have at present were installed under Wine then I would assume any new programs that I try could be removed by replacing .Wine with the copy and then deleting as in http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8a17a13a8a4cda9e12e24a1ad4e1b1aaf043d581 and then check and/or delete ~/.local/share/wineprefixes Is this a reasonable assumption ?