[Lazarus] Lazarus shortcuts conflict with windows shortcuts

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2012-08-15 11:17, schrieb Mattias Gaertner:
> The IDE does not reset configs on itself. Maybe the installer does?

I think the settings are not reset after each update. But I had several situations where I got an startup error message after a certain upgrade which I could only get rid of by renaming the path "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Jürgen\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\lazarus" (which I was not even aware of that it exists and that it holds my settings). Afterwards all settings were gone. I had to do this on multiple machines.

When updating I am also asked whether "D:\Programme\lazarus\environmentoptions.xml" (why is this file located in the installation directory?) should be updated. I was under the impression that this file holds all my settings but only recently found out the editor settings are in "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<user>\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\lazarus\editoroptions.xml". What a nighmare of scattered settings. In "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<user>\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\lazarus" a file environmentoptions.xml exists too. Which one is used? There are 11 XML files in this directory. Are they all config files? Are other (non-XML files) configure something? This all is something the user should not bother about. I find it way too confusing. There should be only one config file with paths (which may be different on different machines) and one for *all* settings regarding Lazarus. But this seems to have evolved over time and cannot be changed back now.