We recently had a support enquiry because the OInsight.ini file (located under C:\Windows) was not being picked up and the developer was therefore unable to change the Application Manager buttons to display the System Editor ++, rather than the old System Editor.
I’d always understood that the OInsight.ini file that OpenInsight used for these settings and others, was the one in the Windows directory. However, from Windows Vista and Windows 7, things are no longer that simple.
As Carl enlightened me, Vista and Windows 7 implement something called virtual file redirection, which means that the ini file the OpenInsight uses is not the one in C:\Windows – when it asks for the file Windows goes and gets it from the Virtual Store instead. It is Microsoft’s way of trying to stop people using ini files – they don’t like you using the registry these days either!!
Anyway, the *real* ini file that Windows gives to OpenInsight is stored in your user settings folder something like:
C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows\oinsight.ini
If you change that ini file, then everything should be fine and OpenInsight will display the right buttons and your other preferences/settings.
For the more technical and those who want to understand all of this in more detail, the following link will be useful:
