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Andy
A calculator program overwrote my win.ini and sys.ini.
It should have appended it instead.
Are those used anymore ?
It should have appended it instead.
Are those used anymore ?
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J. P. Gilliver (John)
Andy said:A calculator program overwrote my win.ini and sys.ini.
It should have appended it instead.
Are those used anymore ?
Whether the system in general uses them, I don't know. I expect some
older prog.s will still, if those prog.s work at all under XP.
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Nil
A calculator program overwrote my win.ini and sys.ini.
It should have appended it instead.
Are those used anymore ?
Since your calculator wrote to it, the answer is obviously "yes."
My WIN.INI was modified in November 2012, by what I don't know, and
SYSTEM.INI was last modified on in May, 2011. I find backups of both of
them in the directory C:\WINDOWS\pss , dated 2006.
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Paul in Houston TX
Andy said:A calculator program overwrote my win.ini and sys.ini.
It should have appended it instead.
Are those used anymore ?
Generally, a program will make an updated version of
win, sys, and control ini's and rename the old version
as win.000, win.001, etc.
They are mostly for 16 bit programs.
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Andy
Since your calculator wrote to it, the answer is obviously "yes."
My WIN.INI was modified in November 2012, by what I don't know, and
SYSTEM.INI was last modified on in May, 2011. I find backups of both of
them in the directory C:\WINDOWS\pss , dated 2006.
The backups in that directory were duplicates of the originals.
Andy