Best place to put preferences on a PC?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Aug 19 12:31:57 EDT 2007


Arthur Rann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I appreciate the help with other issues I had earlier, but I still don't
> know where to put preference files on a PC. Any thoughts? Do prefs files
> even exist on a PC? I want to store my users' serial number somewhere that
> my app can reference when it runs. On the Mac, this is going in the prefs
> folder. Where do I put them on a PC?

Revolution puts some of its files in one of these two places:

Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Application Data folder

Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Local Settings\Application Data

If the serial is encrypted or otherwise obscured, one of these is where 
I'd put it.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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