winecfg(1)

winecfg1

Wine configuration editor

Usage

winecfg [options]

Overview

winecfg is the Wine configuration editor. It allows you to change several settings, such as DLL load order (native versus builtin), enable a virtual desktop, setup disk drives, and change the Wine audio driver, among others. Many of these settings can be made on a per application basis, for example, preferring native riched20.dll for wordpad.exe, but not for notepad.exe.

If no option is given launch the graphical version of winecfg.

Options

-v [version], /v [version]

Set global Windows version to version and exit. If version is not specified, display the current global Windows version and exit.

-?, /?

Display help, valid versions for version and exit.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. Arch

Bugs

Bugs can be reported on the Wine bug tracker ⟨https://bugs.winehq.org⟩.

Availability

winecfg is part of the Wine distribution, which is available through WineHQ, the Wine development headquarters ⟨https://www.winehq.org/⟩.

From wine 11.21-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by wine-staging. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.