Configuration Files - Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

The Microsoft Windows family of operating systems and their attendant applications utilize a similar system of configuration files. Windows 3.0 had an API for INI files (from "initialization"). Many Windows programs abandoned configuration files to use the Windows Registry to store information.

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