OS2.INI
and
OS2SYS.INI
) on shutdown. This setting does not apply to Desktop restarts.
This setting has been added with V0.9.5 to fix the problems many users had during &xshutdown; with very large INI files (several megabytes). Unfortunately, the OS/2 profile (INI) functions have severe limitations dealing with very large files. It looks like these APIs run out of shared memory quite quickly.
For this reason, &xwp; has added its own set of functions which can save INI files to disk. As a result, you can now select how INIs should be saved:
&os2; dumps the INIs to disk automatically every few minutes, so you will lose all settings which have changed since the last automatic INI save. This is pretty much equivalent to pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete, which will not save your INIs either, and affects all &os2; settings which are stored in the INI files (Desktop objects, fonts, colors, application settings). So use this setting with care.
By contrast, icon positions and other information stored in objects' extended attributes will be properly saved.