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 ...

I have hundreds of numbers in an excel column, 905-0225, 905-1126, etc. I have a directory of ini files with corresponding filenames 905-0225.ini, 905-1126.ini, etc. In these ini files I have on line ...

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.