John Ferrell wrote in
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I simply removed the corrupted copy from
my laptop and a new TL.DEF file was created on the next execution.

My personal preference would be to always operate this way. Keeping
the parameters & execution info in the programs subfolder makes it
possible to sanitize as required.


Fortunately a lot of coders now agree. I think the infatuation with the
registry is declining. What's really weird is that in *nix systems, BSD
and Linux etc, that have different filing subsystems, it's not common
practise to put related config files in the base dir for the executable, so
arguably they'd have more use for a common registry than Windows does but
they don't have one. Life is strange... On the other hand, BSD and all do
tend to use human-readable and editable configs more so it's easier to change
things and back them up reliably while the program isn't running.