Hi,
>We are talking *user* specific settings. Where do you put the .INI file for each user?
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>In the same ini file. There is a separate section in the ini file for each user.
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Then you have to track user names yourself. Also, more importantly in some situations, any user can change settings for other users so it can't be used for any type of access-level settings.

>Admittedly if you talk your users through editing an INI file then they can't mess up settings for other apps - but it's far easier for them to screw up your own app if they are just using a text editor on an .INI.
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>< lol > I would rather have them screw up my app that hose the entire system < s >.
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Of course, but I don't ever recall that actually happening.

>Anyway I now conceed the argument - in .NET MS themselves have forsaken the registry :-}
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>No argument - just a matter of opinion and personal preference.

Of course, Best,
Viv