Windows XP Saving Presences

[Andreas Köhler]

Hi,

gnubie schrieb:
> Hello.  I hope this is the correct forum location for this.

yes, it is.

> I am having troubles saving preferences.  I installed 2.2.8 gnucash on my
> work laptop running WinXP Pro SP3.  Everything works fine.  I then installed
> it on my home PC running WinXP Pro SP3.  However, I am not sure what
> happened when I installed, but I cannot save any preferences.  In
> particular, I cannot stop the tip of the day messages at startup, or the
> auto save notification.  When I uncheck those settings in the appropriate
> menu, they do not stay unchecked if I look in the menu again.  Further, I
> noted that gnucash is not starting up loading the last accounts I had been
> using like on my laptop.  I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no
> change in behavior.  Is there a config file or registry where I can tweak
> those and other settings?  I'd like it to not give me a daily tip, start
> with the last accounts I had open and not prompt me for a save every 5
> minutes.

This sounds pretty similar to 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545915, although that is about 
Vista.  Feel free to add further comments here or there, answering the 
questions I have raised.  I also wonder if there are directories 
involved that GnuCash/GConf is not allowed to write to.  Is there 
anything in the trace files 
(http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Error_messages) or the system 
event log?

> Thanks in advance,
> Ian

Ciao,
-- andi5