Is There ANY Way of Reverting Back to Default Settings in Options?

[Kuckoo]

Where on earth is the user options settings stored lol? Keep deleting the old and updating OR-Testing version but new installs keep using previous custom settings.

Just want to set things back to the new default before making changes again but I don't see any way of doing that, and I haven't been able to find the file where options are stored so it can be deleted to this end.

Thanks.

[trainmanaustin]

I want to say that you can refer to the manual as it states what the default value of all the settings are.

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[Kuckoo]

Fair enough, though I prefer navigating to and deleting the file, rather than going through and manually checking every page and click-box. Maybe I'm spoiled, but I'm used to starting new installs with clean settings and simply deleting user configs is usually the best way of doing that IMO.

Besides, I hope it's not asking much just knowing where user setting config files are kept anyway.

Thanks.

[geepster775]

Settings are maintained in the registry. Run Regedt32.exe

Under HKEYCurrentUser/Software. Delete the Open Rails key.

Then reinstall OR as if it were a new installation.

Also clean out C:\users\{username}\Appdata\Roaming\OpenRails

[Kuckoo]

Settings are maintained in the registry. Run Regedt32.exe

Under HKEYCurrentUser/Software. Delete the Open Rails key.

Then reinstall OR as if it were a new installation.

Also clean out C:\users\{username}\Appdata\Roaming\OpenRails

Thank you.
Never would have thought to check the registry. Busy looking for a dat, cfg, etc file.

Been clearing out the OR Roaming folder regularly, too. Thx!

[R. Steele]

There was some discussion about having a config file for user settings...I wonder what happened to that idea? Also why the registry instead of a config file?

[derekmorton]

There was some discussion about having a config file for user settings...I wonder what happened to that idea? Also why the registry instead of a config file?

Cause it's windows and it's easier. :-)

You can use an ini file and the program checks for it first.

[Kuckoo]

There was some discussion about having a config file for user settings...I wonder what happened to that idea? Also why the registry instead of a config file?

I may be off here but I'm guessing it helps with the Enable Webserver option in the testing version of OR as it enables the use of admin templates, basically pre-made web page layouts.

[derekmorton]

No the webserver is for multiplayer only

[Kuckoo]

No the webserver is for multiplayer only

I've actually used the webserver in single player. It's for sending F4 and Alt-F4, Shift+Alt-F4 information to another device (phone, second PC, etc). Think you can show the dispatch window and other info as well. It's a cool feature, since you can display all the detailed information without obscuring the view on the machine running the sim. Just need to know the IP of the sim machine and assign a port number, and type in the url on the other machine. It's described in the online testing manual.

[R. Steele]

Cause it's windows and it's easier. :-)

You can use an ini file and the program checks for it first.

Derek, I've never been able to get the ".ini" file to work for me, guess I'll have to reread the threads and manual about that.

[derekmorton]

My 2 ini files

[R. Steele]

Thanks, however, the problem I have is with the placement of the "OpenRails" folder, in which the blank ini file resides. I know OR will write all the settings to this file when it loads, if it finds it in the correct place.

My problem could arise from the fact that I have not ever used the updater function of OR, preferring the download the versions I use directly, if that has any bearing on the issue. Fact is, whenever I've tried this...the file does not generated by OR, so I must be doing something incorrectly. Not a big deal Derek, this is so off topic, so if you have the time, PM or email me. Thanks. Gerry