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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 977572" data-attributes="member: 325666">Just got a reply from Jonti .....&gt;&gt;&gt;Hi Evan,Yes multiple instances are a problem because I used the registry. Currently the only way around it is treating each instance as if it has no persistence. This means as each instance is started the setting are adjusted and the settings dialog never opened again. It works but is a hassle.When I first started writing I never imaged that people would run more than one instance which is why the problem.I could change from using the registry to files in the program directory but that is discouraged and in the past when doing this with windows 7 needed changing the directory permissions. Maybe a solution would be looking from where the program was run from and changing the settings location based on that. That would mean different directories would have different settings. I'll do a little programming and implement that to see if that is a viable solution. It shouldn't take me to long, I'll have a look over the weekend and see what I can do.Cheers,Jonti..........he's looking into it ...now that is what I call helpful ..If you read this ..Many thanks Jonti..rgdsVS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 977572, member: 325666"] Just got a reply from Jonti ..... >>> Hi Evan, Yes multiple instances are a problem because I used the registry. Currently the only way around it is treating each instance as if it has no persistence. This means as each instance is started the setting are adjusted and the settings dialog never opened again. It works but is a hassle. When I first started writing I never imaged that people would run more than one instance which is why the problem. I could change from using the registry to files in the program directory but that is discouraged and in the past when doing this with windows 7 needed changing the directory permissions. Maybe a solution would be looking from where the program was run from and changing the settings location based on that. That would mean different directories would have different settings. I'll do a little programming and implement that to see if that is a viable solution. It shouldn't take me to long, I'll have a look over the weekend and see what I can do. Cheers, Jonti .......... he's looking into it ... now that is what I call helpful .. If you read this .. Many thanks Jonti.. rgds VS [/QUOTE]

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