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When I try to open the wine settings through the 'system settings' dialog, it comes up with this message: "The module Windows Applications could not be loaded. Possible reasons: An ...
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  1. 12-07-2008 #1
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    Settings not loading

    When I try to open the wine settings through the 'system settings' dialog, it comes up with this message:

    "The module Windows Applications could not be loaded.

    Possible reasons:
    An error occured during your last KDE update leaving an orphaned control module.
    You have old third-party modules lying around.

    Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message. If this fails, consider contacting your distributor or packager."

    I'm running Kubuntu 8.04, and I tried apt-get remove and nothing
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    Execute this
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    sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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    Didn't work

    Though I notice that it didn't upgrade anything with the last command...
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    Try to re-install wine. Make sure to remove its configs too.
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    Ok, probably a really noobish question, but where are the configs? I've re-installed it several times, but it's obvious that it hasn't removed the config files so far...
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    Execute this
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    rm -rf $HOME/.wine
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm
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  7. 12-10-2008 #7
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    Still didn't work

    Though I just noticed, every time I try to load the settings it claims that I have no fake windows drive. Is this important?
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