Win.ini was over written

[Andy]

A calculator program overwrote my win.ini and sys.ini.
It should have appended it instead.

Are those used anymore ?

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

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.

 

[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.

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

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.

 

[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