New problem / insight? Wine

[Clark]

I found in; system settings - advanced a wine glass icon with "windows 
applications" label; I selected it and a dialog box poped up with the 
message  "It appears that you do not yet have a Windows drive set up. A 
fake Windows installation will be created for you in /home/cpm/.wine.  
This may take up to a minute"

I waited ten minutes and the wheel was still going around so I selected 
OK and the wheel stopped as did the the entire system, another complete 
system freeze.  I will try creating this file and see what happens - 
strikes me as a thouroughly untried / tested system this Wine, perhaps 
it should be spelled with an Wh.

Any suggestions?

Clark