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The stars.ini is located in the c:\windows directory or wherever else you installed windows to (c:\win95 etc) and contains the non game-specific settings for Stars!, and a hashed record of your game's serial number and machine configuration. If stars.ini is missing or the serial number/machine config do not match you will see the enter serial code dialog when you run stars.exe. For Stars! to remember these settings the user needs to have write access to the c:\windows directory(admin rights or access specifically granted by an admin), however stars will run quite happily without the stars.ini file ever existing - it will just ask you for your serial code every time and won't remember any of your settings.
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#redirect [[Files Used in Stars!#Ini file -- stars.ini (in the Windows directory)]]
 
 
The following settings are stored in stars.ini:
 
*window layout
 
*all zip orders(custom transport tasks)
 
*all stored queues, ''including the default queue''
 
*all map settings and filters
 
 
 
==Manually modifying==
 
There are a few modifcations you can make to the stars.ini file.
 
 
 
===newreports===
 
Adding newreports=1 to the [misc] section will give increased information in your text dumps and change the name of the dump files from gamename.pla to gamename.p## (## being the player number)
 
* generally recommended and required by some [[utilities]]
 
 
 
===backups===
 
Adding backups=XX to the [misc] section where XX is a number (eg backups=50) will create sub-directorys called backup1,backup2 etc until backupXX ''when the game is generated'' - this only applies to the host player or when playing alone vs AI.
 
 
 
===default password===
 
Adding DefaultPassword=XXXXXXXX to the [misc] section where XXXXXXXX is your chosen password will allow opening game files using this password to be opened without Stars! asking for the password. From [http://starsautohost.org/sahforum/index.php?t=msg&th=1309&rid=78&S=9da9a99e238c7c4b5cb0e162a646bb7d&pl_view=&start=0#msg_10117 Tip: Two "default" passwords] at [[HWF]]
 
 
 
===fonts===
 
Adding (or editing) a [fonts] section can cure some [[Known Bugs#Font Problems When Using a Non-English Version of Windows|font problems]]. Here are the default settings for the various languages, though others can be substituted.
 
 
 
English:
 
:[fonts]
 
:Arial=Arial
 
:ArialBold=Arial Bold
 
:ArialItalic=Arial Italic
 
:ArialBoldItalic=Arial Bold Italic
 
 
 
 
 
German:
 
:[fonts]
 
:Arial=Arial
 
:ArialBold=Arial Fett
 
:ArialItalic=Arial Kursiv
 
:ArialBoldItalic=Arial Fett Kursiv
 
 
 
 
 
Danish:
 
:[fonts]
 
:Arial=Arial
 
:ArialBold=Arial fed
 
:ArialItalic=Arial kursiv
 
:ArialBoldItalic=Arial fed kursiv
 
 
 
 
 
Finnish:
 
:[fonts]
 
:Arial=Arial
 
:ArialBold=Arial Lihavoitu
 
:ArialItalic=Arial Kursivoitu
 
:ArialBoldItalic=Arial Lihavoitu Kursivoitu
 
 
 
 
 
Swedish:
 
:[fonts]
 
:Arial=Arial
 
:ArialBold=Arial Fet
 
:ArialItalic=Arial Kursiv
 
:ArialBoldItalic=Arial Fet Kursiv
 
 
 
 
 
Russian:
 
:[fonts]
 
:Arial=Arial Cyr
 
:ArialBold=Arial Cyr
 
:ArialItalic=Arial Cyr
 
:ArialBoldItalic=Arial Cyr
 
 
 
==Default Location==
 
'''3.11/95/98/ME/2000/XP''': C:\Windows
 
 
 
'''Vista''': [drive]:\users\[user]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows
 

Latest revision as of 20:02, 28 June 2009