>Actually, a settings table with several records - one global, one per workstation, one per user, and a memo in each of them with XML or even a attribute=value list of pairs, and you can have a full hierarchy of settings if you want.

Wow, yes but I will leave the workstation setting the way it ir right now, ini file. I like the idea though

>Or you can have just one record, for the global. So your ini is in a memo in such a table. You can even copy it out on app start and read the settings the old way.

I will give this a thought but may raise issues when a user changes a global setting and the stuff needs to be merged back into the original memo

Thanks.