Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

OK here is the situation. I have a users database for this application we are using. within it each user has a unique ID for 2 different programs. The program that uses these ID's grabs those values ...

This is more of an administrative sanity thing than a problem, per se... I've got a file share full of user home directories, where they can save stuff that they don't need to share with each other.