A couple of weeks ago I noted that shared segments weren't working. Alexandre said that he fixed it. I wasn't in the position to build a fresh wine at the time. I am now but it doesn't seem to work still. I replicated the problem with a test exe, the basic Hello, World generated by MS VC 6 for a Windows program, with a single variable in a shared segment that is statically initialised to 0 and incremented by 10 in the WinMain and displayed on the screen. Thus it displays 0 on the first paint, 10 after minimising and maximising and 10 and 20 for the second instance run (confirmed on Win95). Under wine I run "wine testshr_app.exe &" a couple of times and both instances display 0 and 10. Any ideas? (Would this be better on a different newsgroup) Bill