.ini files location

message from Dave on 3 Jun 2004
I hope someone can help with this problem : We're using an application under
XP that creates an ini file to record user preferences for subsequent use.
Due to security restrictions, regular users do not have write access to
c:\windows, and so the application fails to create the ini file and have to
re-set their preferences every time they run the application. This applies
to 30+ users in my organisation, at least once daily.

Is there a way to change the default location for .ini files, to another
directory where users have read-write access?

Thanks,

Dave
 

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