hello! 1) in case of win95/98/me we load the content of %windir%/user.dat registry file under HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT key. the real windows doesn't do it - they load under HKEY_USERS key. on my system there're two keys in mentioned user.dat file which do not belong under HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT, so probably wine doesn't handle this correctly. more concrete: [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Telephony] @="" [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Telephony\\HandoffPriorities] "RequestMakeCall"="DIALER.EXE" [.DEFAULT\\Identities] ... all other keys are under .DEFAULT is there some reason why we can't load under HKEY_USERS like real windows does? should i go for it? 2) i compared the output of regedit.exe under wine and windows. wine moves the whole content of HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT branch to HKEY_USERS/%username% location. the HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT remains empty then. is this correct? maybe they both should contain the same values or what...or is there some kind of "redirection" to HKEY_USERS/%username% when application asks for something under HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT? thanks, martin