![]() Note 2 - Although Windows NT systems nominally have the standard Windows INI files Win.ini and System.ini, they map their contents to registry settings. In that case, a 0-sized file may remain behind. Occasionally this fails, because on some systems Windows caches INI file contents and does not allow an INI file to be deleted immediately. ![]() Note 1 - If, after uninstallation of your application and reversing any modifications that were made to INI files, one or more INI files turn out to be empty, they are automatically removed by InstallMate. INI file modifications are automatically installed and removed with the rest of you application, and InstallMate's Setup program is smart enough to remove only the parts that you added to appended INI file values. InstallMate has a full complement of INI file editing functions, including the ability to selectively replace or append existing values in any INI file on the customer's computer. However, there may be situations where you still need to install or modify an INI file, either one used by your own application, or a system file. Since the introduction of Windows 95, Microsoft recommends that you use the Windows registry instead of INI files for those purposes. ![]() ![]() INI files are a hold-over from Windows 3.1 and earlier, where they were used extensively to store system and application settings. ![]()
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