diff --git a/config-wine-hawc2.sh b/config-wine-hawc2.sh
index 1ac9a6af220b00a88f0c9da41fa435f3ef41a9b5..d7d0ddeac652adc915ec47a3265703167c51ce1e 100755
--- a/config-wine-hawc2.sh
+++ b/config-wine-hawc2.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 function wine_init_config () {
 
+    echo "-------- remove/clean-up existing wine configuration: $WINEDIRNAME"
+    rm -rf $WINEDIRNAME
+
     echo "-------- initialize winecfg"
     # execute winecfg to trigger init configuration, might fail to complete
     # on Jess since winefix has not been executed