Best way to store "registry" config data for portable apps?

From: John (zjboyguard-newsgrpsDELETETHISTOUSE_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:53:15 GMT

On Tue, 18 May 2004 00:58:10 -0400, Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote:
> It is a simple choice. .INI files are obsolete. So there is no decision process involved.

Joe,

I don't actually disagree with you, but I have a question in another direction. The questions pretty much boils down to how to deal with a problem which I think the registry is not designed to address.

I have one of those 256MB portable USB portable storage thingee's. I've noticed that whenever you install or run a Windows app from this USB drive, the app stores/extracts it's usage info from the system registry. This doesn't sound like it would be a problem, but in practice I've found it has annoying consequences.

An aspect of an app specific .INI file which I (think I) like is that if you have the same app installed on different media the configuration data for the app is easily localized to the separate .INI files stored with the app.

Is there some "standard"/recommended way to store "portable" configuration data in Windows? A way to save app config/install info which is specific to the media you're running the application from?

-irrational john

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