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I am having trouble getting a program to respond to changes I make in its .ini file.
I’m using Windows Vista Home Premium and the program I’m trying to change is an older program called Word Ace. I’ve made the changes to the .ini files for this same program on a machine which runs Windows XP and the program responded to the changes as I anticipated.
I’m trying to change the .ini files to instruct the Word Ace program to look for it’s sound files on the Hard Drive ( C: ) instead of my CD / DVD drive, which is ( E: ) . However, after the changes are made to the .ini files on my Vista machine, the program continues to try and find the sound files on my CD / DVD drive. I understand from other posts that Vista may have created a substitute for the original .ini file which it is using when I start the program. Consequently the program never sees the changes I’ve made. I have seen one other post about a similar problem, however I have not been able to implement the recommended solution since the file structure for my program seems to be different than that described in the earlier situation. For the WordAce program the program’s files are installed in their own folder in the root directory on my C drive rather than in the Programs folder. The .ini program is installed in the Windows Folder on the C drive. This is the .ini file I’ve been changing.
Word Ace is an older program which I bought in 2001 and which may have been created originally for Windows 98. Even though the program is now discontinued, I have spoken to their Technical department and they were kind enough to provide me with the necessary changes to the .ini and they told me how to find the .ini file. Unfortunately, especially since the program has been discontinued they have not provided a Vista “fix”. As I said earlier the instructions they provided worked perfectly for the program on my XP machine but seem to have no effect on my Vista Machine.
If anyone has any suggestions about what I could do to implement these changes they would be most appreciated.
I’m using Windows Vista Home Premium and the program I’m trying to change is an older program called Word Ace. I’ve made the changes to the .ini files for this same program on a machine which runs Windows XP and the program responded to the changes as I anticipated.
I’m trying to change the .ini files to instruct the Word Ace program to look for it’s sound files on the Hard Drive ( C: ) instead of my CD / DVD drive, which is ( E: ) . However, after the changes are made to the .ini files on my Vista machine, the program continues to try and find the sound files on my CD / DVD drive. I understand from other posts that Vista may have created a substitute for the original .ini file which it is using when I start the program. Consequently the program never sees the changes I’ve made. I have seen one other post about a similar problem, however I have not been able to implement the recommended solution since the file structure for my program seems to be different than that described in the earlier situation. For the WordAce program the program’s files are installed in their own folder in the root directory on my C drive rather than in the Programs folder. The .ini program is installed in the Windows Folder on the C drive. This is the .ini file I’ve been changing.
Word Ace is an older program which I bought in 2001 and which may have been created originally for Windows 98. Even though the program is now discontinued, I have spoken to their Technical department and they were kind enough to provide me with the necessary changes to the .ini and they told me how to find the .ini file. Unfortunately, especially since the program has been discontinued they have not provided a Vista “fix”. As I said earlier the instructions they provided worked perfectly for the program on my XP machine but seem to have no effect on my Vista Machine.
If anyone has any suggestions about what I could do to implement these changes they would be most appreciated.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Gateway GT5648E
- CPU
- AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core 6000 3.00 GH
- Memory
- 3.0GB Ram
- Hard Drives
- 300 GB