http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26021
--- Comment #3 from Collin Nothingmuchheretosay@yahoo.com 2011-02-07 18:39:57 CST --- (In reply to comment #2)
Specify wine version please. This could be caused by installed service (that some application did install in your wine prefix), try to remove .wine and start from a scratch to see if winecfg starts up fine.
It worked, however what can I do to avoid this? Because I do not want to re download all of my apps to a new prefix.