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Global application settings can be stored in the custom XML files, configuration files, or the Registry. I know, there is a tendency to treat the NET pariah and I do not intend to get into an argument, but so far the Registry offers the easiest means of storing global, writable application-specific settings.

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1) pick a setting that is being reset. Find out where this setting is located in the registry. 2) before a user logs out, check their registry to make sure the When I need to reboot my TS after applying patches or installing software my users complain about losing all of their custom application settings.

User Application settings lost on reboot
Local registry is probably simplest (4) Installed application settings/configuration ...A configuration file (Suit yourself you have *complete* control!) ...[Extreme / occasional] Refer to a server via the Internet to update stuff The *registry* is based on a single PC. If you have an application that may be

Windows Registry - Flawed Design
how to make your application suitable for network- and multiuser-environments? - how to backup all application-settings at once? - how to ensure proper security options on your settings, like it is possible in the Windows 2000-registry? - administrators and advanced users would have to learn very many completely

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(They are eachother's standby, ie one is master, the other is slave) Now I can copy their file-based settinsg easily using SHFileOperation, but is it possible to copy there registry settings aswell? In this kind of setup i would not use registry keys to keep application settings, i would use INI files,

Registry keys for my application
You see the point is I want NT5 to take on all my application settings into its registry, but at the same time I don't want to overwrite Win98. So if I load, say, Corel Draw through NT5, I want it to know its installed through NT, and work correctly. If I install NT5 to c:\windows will it overwrite Win98?

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Therefore, the profile path remains in C:\Documents and Settings, but specific user shell folders are moved to D:\. Address Book folder 6) Favorites folder 7) Downloads folder (downloaded apps and updates) You place these shell folders on D:\ using TweakUI for XP or registry edits or application settings.

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Bob Howard i...@churchtrax.com microsoft public access setupconfig With an Access 2003 MDE I deploy to clients who are using Access 2003 (either full license or the runtime deal), I've developed a little piece of code that sets the client's Macro security to "low" by fiddling with some registry settings.

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Chris ch...@skymicro.net microsoft public outlook general Hi I uninstalled Outlook, deleted the contests of C:\Documents and Settings\chris\Application Are they stored in the registry? Is there any way to delete them other than through Outlook's Email Accounts? Finally, I tried CTRL + ALT + S,

AppSettings instead of Registry
I don't know where Microsoft keeps the registry settings for the taskbar. (Which actually begs another question. I can see no advantage to storing application settings in the registry other than for the fact that MS says to do so. Are there any technical reasons for doing so?) The reason Microsoft advises keeping

Registry problem once system stsrtup
Norton Internet security is deactivated by deleting Norton Internet security startup items from registry and changing Norton Internet security services to manual to What anti-virus application or "internet security" suite is installed on the machine? What third-party firewall might you be using (eg, Zone Alarm;

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In particular, application settings should not be in the application directory, but rather should be in a separate settings directory somewhere. Application directory. Contains all fixed application files. 2. Global settings directory. This is where application settings applicable to all users reside. 3.

Registry or .ini for settings storage?
No OTHER OS has a registry to muck things up, Now hold on here. Among other things, the registry is a good centralized location for process ID's (those so you could at boot time, in principle, load the hardware and application settings specific to a particular machine and then load the user settings at login.

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Hardware settings, OS settings, application settings, doesn't matter. It sure seemed to matter when the system slows down now doesn't it. I repeat the fact that the MSCEs instructions are to fix the registry and you'll be able to reclaim most of the speed performance back. These are all well and swell.

registry settings and application problem.
Well, the environment variables wind up in the registry anyway. IMHO, if that's acceptable to you, you should probably just use the registry directly. In a .NET application, the other alternative would be a configuration file. In .NET 2.0 and later, the Settings class provides a very nice, easy way to persist

INTERNET EXPLORER 7 CONNECTION PROBLEMS
Your Windows firewall setting will be analyzed. Download Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830). It will give you all su*kers leached into your registry and ask you if you wanted to remove them. Many of them have masqueraded themselves under MS Windows names like Windows.something.

Configuration files (Re: MS Windows Registry Re: The point of ...
Should store in the registry? not in my opinion. SaveSetting App.title, “Setting”, [KeyName], [setting] X = GetSetting(App.Title, “Setting”, [KeyName], [Default]) And I was instructed some years ago that this is the way recommended by Microsoft to handle application settings since INI files belongs to the history…

INTERNET EXPLORER 7 CONNECTION PROBLEMS
DeleteSetting statement Deletes registry settings. Note To view registry entries, use the Regedit application, included with Windows 95 and Windows NT. Creating or Saving Application Settings Explains how to save new values for registry keys stored in your application's registry location. b.

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With the registry, it -> is feasible to check an option setting on the fly when you need it, -> rather than loading and parsing a text file beforehand. And the corallary of this is: A specific application only needs to deal with one text file at a time. It doesn't need to open up a connection to a full-fledged

IIS Registry Entries
The registry locks your app settings to one machine, and given that assemblies are passed much easier between machines now, it only makes sense that the configuration files be .NET has classes for registry access, and that's still the standard way of storing application configuration data, with or without .NET.