Wine won't run, and winecfg returns an error

[Sasha Tsykin]

Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
>
>    I installed Wine, and it was working great. And then I was 
> following the instructions on this page:
>
>    I got to the point where I used winecfg to install some dll files, 
> and then after that, wine stopped working completely. I must have 
> typed in the name wrong or something.
>
>    My first attempt to repair the situation was to go back to Synaptic 
> and reinstall the software. But I still get the following error when 
> running winecfg, and any attempt to run wine itself simply produces no 
> output or results whatsoever.
>
>    This is the error output from winecfg:
>
> dave at ubuntu1:~$ winecfg
> err:thunk:_loadthunk (commctrl.dll, Cctl1632_ThunkData16, 
> comctl32.dll): Unable to load 'commctrl.dll', error 2
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, 
> aborting
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for 
> L"C:\\windows\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000142
>
>    Any ideas how I get Wine back up and running?
>
>    Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
>    Thank you.
>
> -- 
> Dave M G
rm -Rf ~/.wine (Replace with a different directory if this is not your 
wine directory.

Sasha