[Wine] Error loading mfc42.dll - failed (error c000007b)

[John Drescher]

> If I remember correctly, before installing Wine1.3.8, I deleted ~/.wine directory, but my memory is not strong so it is possible that the problem is there.
>
> Before cancelling ~/.wine and re-installing again Wine, I would try other ways. It may be interesting a test I did few minutes ago with "sudo".
>
> Here is the code:
>
> Code:
> claudio at Aspire-8530:~$ sudo wine "c:\\Programmi\\Birthday Reminder\\bday.exe"
> [sudo] password for claudio:
> wine: /home/claudio/.wine is not owned by you
>
>
> May be you or some other expert can understand the problem combining the above information with the code of my first msg.
>
> Claudio  :)
>

Cut it out with sudo. Please quit using sudo, root or su with wine.
This will break things.

John