wine users - Jun 2011 - Doing anything on Wine uses 100% CPU

I am trying to get Wine 1.2 working on my system running Ubuntu 10.10. When I
try to run a program in Wine via the command line, the CPU usage shoots up to
100% for a few seconds and it prints out the following message many times:


Code:
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle (nil), overlapped (nil)): stub



After it finished printing the copies of this message, the CPU usage drops, but
the program keeps running without doing anything until I kill it. If I try to
configure Wine (from the Applications menu) the CPU usage maxes out and stays
there until a few seconds after I close the configuration window. If I check my
processes at this time, I see that a process called slpd.exe is using about 180%
of my CPU.

I've searched for help online and other people seem to be having CPU usage
problems with Wine, but these always seem to be caused by trying specific
applications; doing literally anything on Wine seems to cause this problem. I
carefully followed the installation instructions and I've completely removed
and reinstalled Wine several times, getting the same problem each time. What is
going on?

Have you installed some Spyware in your default WINEPREFIX or an infected
application?  What did you install anyway?? [Laughing]

You can delete all your installed Windows applications in the default WINEPREFIX
with:

Code:
rm -Rf ~/.wine


Surely that would solve the problem - no?

BTW Q4Wine (http://sourceforge.net/projects/q4wine/) is a useful Qt GUI utility
that groups all the Wine associated processes running on your system together by
WINEPREFIX. It's in the Ubuntu repositories.

Bob