Wine quit launching

[gmebey]

I'm having an issue with wine and ask for advice on Ask.Ubuntu, post :http://askubuntu.com/questions/505483/w ... it-working

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04:


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I have been using Wine 1.6 for running several old Windows XP applications. Last night I tried to install a old win98 app and seem to have broken something.

I changed the "default" compatibility mode to "win98" in the Configure Wine window and exited out. The n tried to right click on the .exe file to use install wine application from the pop-up menu. Wine never launched the install.

When I tried to go back to "Configure Wine" it even failed to open and then to my shock I found that my other three windows XP applications that worked prior to this all failed to launch.

Doing some research I tried launching winecfg from the command line and it failed with an error with something about .idt failed to invoke.

So my question is how can I undo or fix my horrible mistake? Is there a way to force the wine mode back to winXP?

[dimesio]

Read this: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-bf26e32 ... a60a433f88.

[gmebey]

UPDATE

Looking around in the FAQ I found "10.6. Every app I try to start crashes"
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-7c6623c ... e682c7c16c

I was not able to recover my wine installation and had to remove it then reinstall.

All is good now, thanks