Win.ini was over written

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

Are those used anymore ?

In message , Andy
writes:

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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From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)"

In message , Andy
writes:

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.

Its a hold-over of Win3.x and older and only programs designed for them use
those INI files. Thus they still exist for a modicum of backward
compatibility. Win9x/ME and later OS' and compliant programs use the
Registry instead.

--
Dave
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On 17 Mar 2013, Andy wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

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.

Andy wrote:
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.

On Sunday, March 17, 2013 4:44:09 PM UTC-5, Nil wrote:
On 17 Mar 2013, Andy wrote in

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:



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.

The backups in that directory were duplicates of the originals.

Andy