[Wine] Cleaning up a WINE install.

[Marcel W. Wysocki]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:07:30 -0500
"vitamin" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

well, he didnt really want to remove all of his software installed
anyways..
for the registry stuff i use ccleaner (www.ccleaner.de)
its a nice tool to clean up the windows registry and even works great in wine



-- 
Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net>
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