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From: Jane Taubman <>
Subject: Re: [FHU] The Fh.INI file and FH under Windows XP HE
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT)


If FH works like most Windows programs if you move the ini file to the program directory it should use it from there. INI files are normally handled using a windows api call which looks in windows directory and the program directory.

Jane Taubman

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--- wrote:
>Using FH v2 as a "Limited User" account under Windows XP HE.
>
>I have just started using FH version 2 and I am very pleased with the product
>so far. However, I have run into a small problem when trying to make changes
>to settings. For example, if I make changes in TOOLS>DIAGRAM DEFAULTS I
>get the message
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Unable to save settings in file Fh.INI (Probably located in your Windows
>Directory). Is this file read only?
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>This occurs if I run FH in my usual user accounts, which are classed as
>"Limited Users" under Windows XP HE. If I run under an Administrator account,
>there is no problem, but I do not want to have to do this.
>
>The file does indeed exist in the \Windows\ directory but I suspect that
>under XP, a "limited User" cannot alter files in that directory - which
>is what I would expect when the whole point of Limited Users is to protect
>them from making potentially damaging changes to the XP configuration.
>
>I have hunted around the FH manual and the software menus but cannot find
>a way to re-direct FH to look for this INI file in an individual account's
>Documents and Settings directory path.
>
>Am I missing something obvious here, or have I found a limitation of FH
>under XP?
>
>BTW, the thought occurs to me that if I want to share FH across two or more
>of my family user accounts under XP HE, and if FH uses only one fh.ini file,
>then if all XP accounts were able to update it, the last settings used by
>the last user would be there for everyone at the next run of FH - not what
>one would really want to happen. If the files is kept in the Documents
>and Settings path for the individual user, then that potential problem would
>go away.
>
>
>Thanks
>Roger Horton
>
>
>
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