markie83 wrote: > > what is the deal with wine taking over default file formats for all my stuff??? so everytime I click a txt file it tries to open notepad via wine?? > The goal of Wine is to have apps behave just like they do in Windows--even the annoying parts, like changing file associations without asking the user. Luckily, in Wine you can stop that particular annoyance by disabling winemenubuilder. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-c847a3ded88bac0e61aae0037fa7dbd4c7ae042a