I do have both wine and winetricks installed. I suppose by associating a file with winetricks i can make it run with that instead of wine, or run from command line. I found iexplorer.exe in ProgramFiles in the .wine folder, so I guess it was there already. I don't know how to determine the version - the explorer help menu just says iexplorer. But perhaps that wasn't the problem. I also found the readme for swtor. It says... MINIMUM ------------------------- OS: Windows 7 Windows Vista with SP2 Windows XP with service pack 2 Does wine or winetricks emulate all versions of windows and service packs, or do i have to specify and/or get crafty? darKoram