>Hi Nadya:
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>The Registry is the most common place to store these kinds of settings.

Hi Charlie,

I've never understood why these kinds of settings are stored in the registry (besides the fact that Microsoft said so <g>). IMO, they are application data. What if Windows is reinstalled on the machine, or the user logs in and uses a different machine? Storing settings in tables (or in .ini files in the application data directory, as you suggested) makes life a whole lot easier.

An example of this foolishness is 'My Favorites' in IE. To have a backup of this, you have to run an export routine. It would make a whole lot more sense if these were stored in a data file (with a configurable location) in "My Documents" folder. Then it gets backed up every time data is backed up.

Just my 2 cents...