Kde crashed, so while I was researching how to fix it I was in wmaker, trying different programs to see if they still worked. When I ran Guild Wars a small screen came up and floated to the bottom right of the screeen and went off. The music is still playing, process manager shows it still running. Every time I try to start it the screen flashes on the monitor and goes off. I have to kill it thru the process manager. This ran thru wine, but all other applications run fine in wine. This happened many years ago with windows 3.0 and I forget what I did to get it back. I think it has something to do with stopping the program off screen so it comes up that way because that is what was stored when it stopped. But I dont know what kind of file that would be and where to look in the file. Any ideas>

Windows programs can keep their settings in a configuration file in the program's install directory, usually a text file with a .cfg file extension, similar to most *nix programs. But it's more likely their stored in the Windows registry. Wine comes with a built-in registry editor which you can call up with the command "regedit". Then do a search for the name of the program (you may have to try a few variations). It'll probably be under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/programname.

Either way, you then have to search the keys for something that looks like positioning info. This can be hard because they're often rather cryptically-named. I'd guess you'll be looking for something with an x/y positioning value and a decimal value somewhere just outside of your current screen resolution, but it could be something like starting minimized or such as well. Changing or removing them should hopefully put it back into a default location the next time you start the program.

If nothing else works, run the wine "uninstaller" and remove and reinstall the program. Depending on how intelligent the uninstaller is, it may or may not remove the registry entries as well, so you may have to fire up regedit again and clean it of all program-related settings before reinstalling.

And finally, as a last-ditch solution, you can always destroy your entire ~/.wine setup and start over from scratch. Good luck.

Went to regeditand found guild wars under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/arena but the only thing there was path d:/guild wars/gw.exe and that is the cdrom. I checked a laptop withguild wars installed under vista and the regedit has the same thing. So I tried reinstalling it and it did the same thing. So after a few more tries of other things I will probably upgrade wine and then reinstall guild wars. Thanks for the help.