Erik,

I always override the form.Name property with frmTheForm and I don't have problems with that changing at runtime. My form class uses a key like HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DFSD\CEPASTATUS\frmPlantStatus.Bform without any problems finding it to read/write at runtime.

>My framework remembers reads and writes certain form settings to the registry on load and destroy, so the users preferences are remembered. The keys in the registry are the form's name.
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>This has worked fine until I tried implementing this with a top-level form. The settings are never remembered because the form's name property gets set to a random value.
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>Is this a Windows assignment? Do I have any control over it?