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When I run the winecfg command, (after installing wine) either from the menu or by a command in Terminal after a few seconds the whole PC freezes and has to be rebooted to continue. I am running the latest Ububntu version with a reasonable spec PC. I have fully renistalled Ubuntu and also removed and reinstalled wine several times. Having searched this forum the only mention of a similar problem is quoted below. I am new to linux and wine but fairly knowlegable on PCs. Any ideas? Quote 'Running winecfg seems to hang or complain about files when I click the audio...