1. Editing

2. See also

3. References

Prior to Windows 3.0, it was not uncommon for applications to store their configuration settings inside WIN.INI. With the release of Windows 3.0 in 1990, Microsoft introduced the concept of "private" INI files, and some new application programming interface calls so that applications could store their settings in their own files.^[2]

Today Microsoft recommends using other methods for storing settings.

Editing

Microsoft bundles two specialized editors for core configuration files (such as WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI, CONFIG.SYS, and AUTOEXEC.BAT) with its operating systems. Sysedit is an MDI text editor that opens all of those files simultaneously, available in all versions of Windows since Windows 3.x. MSConfig, included with Windows 98 and above except Windows 2000,^[3] is a simpler application that allows a user to enable and disable drivers and applications from being loaded at startup by the aforementioned files and the Run, RunEx, and RunOnce registry keys.

WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI are included in modern versions of Windows for 16-bit application support. 16-bit applications may error if these 2 files do not exist in C:\\Windows.

See also

• Make Compatible

References

• Helmuth Schneider
• Helmuth Schwenn
• Helmuth Sobirk
• Helmuth Søbirk
• Helmut Huter
• Helmut Hutter
• Helmuth von Pannwitz
• Helmuth Weitling
• Helmut Höflehner
• Helmut Hönl
• Helmut Kapp
• Helmut Kelleners
• Helmut Kleinhofer
• Helmut Koernig
• Helmut Kofler
• Helmut Kohl (referee)
• Helmut (Konami)
• Helmut Krackowizer
• Helmut Krauss
• Helmut Kremers
• Helmut Kunz
• Helmut Kurmis
• Helmut Körnig
• Helmut Landsberg
• Helmut landsberg