Hi, This is what's going on using wine-20050725 under gentoo: $ ls -l user.reg; wine winecfg; ls -l user.reg # winecfg did some changes ... 7517 Aug 28 16:00 user.reg ... 7517 Aug 28 16:00 user.reg $ sleep 5 $ ls -l user.reg ... 7629 Aug 28 16:13 user.reg So, wine exits, but wineserver keeps running and finishes a second or two later. As a result it rewrites the config files AFTER the command completion. That confuses scripts reading and manipulating the registers. Well, it confuses wine too, if I try to run wine immediately after exiting wine. Is that on purpose? Is there any workaround? Am I doing something wrong here? Ivan