[WriteLog] Anoyance during ARRL DX contest

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

So that was a dirty re-install ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fidel Leon" <ea3gip at ea3gip.net>
To: <wrt at dslextreme.com>
Cc: <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 22:16
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Anoyance during ARRL DX contest


> At 04:19 09/03/2004, Bill Turner wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:10:48 +0100, Fidel Leon wrote:
> >
> > >Another one... Has anyone noted his/her WRITELOG.INI and WLOGKEY.INI
being
> > >created in "Documents and Settings\user\WINDOWS" instead of
%WINDIR%...?
> >
> >My writelog.ini file has always been in C:\windows.  How did yours get
> >somewhere else?
>
> Sincerelly.... I don't have a single clue! Mine was there too!
>
> I recently reinstalled my operating system, so I installed Writelog and,
> after the installation, copied a backup of WRITELOG.INI in my \WINDOWS
> directory.
>
> I started WL, and went to the Ports setup, since the WRITELOG.INI copy I
> had was a little outdated, and the radio was in another serial port, but I
> found a COM port from the old computer (a CommSlot2=6), which was
> unexistent. I exited WL, modified WRITELOG.INI erasing the CommSlot2=6,
and
> restarted WL.
>
> What a surprise when I already found COM6 in Ports! I checked everything
> else for half an hour! Some parameters, as the W5XD/K5DJ multikeyer port,
> were changed correctly, so looked like the configuration was written
> anywhere else.
>
> Looking for more WRITELOG.INI files in the hard disk, I found one in
> Documents and Settings\user_name\WINDOWS with a current modification date.
> It was a perfect copy from my original WRITELOG.INI but for the parameters
> I changed from Ports. The CommSlot2=6 was there, and when removed, COM6
was
> no longer in Ports.
>
> OS is Windows 2003 Server.
>
> 73,
>
> Fidel Leon - EA3GIP
> ea3gip at ea3gip.net
>
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