[Wine] Re: Cleaning up a WINE install.

[vitamin]

Marcel W. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:40:24 -0300
> Owen Stairs <olstairs at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I was installing a game, and I made the mistake of agreeing to install 
> > DirectX.  I'm guessing this can screw up your WINE.  Is there any way to 
> > clean up my WINE after doing something like that without having to 
> > reinstall all my software?
> > 
> > Owen Stairs
> > 
> 
> You can try to remove .wine/drive_c/windows and .wine/drive_c/program files
> and then run wineprefixcreate
> perhaps that will help
> -- 
> Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net>
> 


In case you didn't know that is what 'rm -rf ~/.wine' does, plus few more helpful things. All in one command! Removing files without cleaning registry is WRONG and will harm even windows. It for sure _WILL_ break Wine or rather programs that see stuff in registry yet can't find it on the disk.