Location of ArcPad.ini on windows 7 arcpad 10

Question

What is the official or proper location for arcpad.ini and is there a way to set it to a fixed location? If I search my computer I have 3 locations that the file exists in and Application.GetProfileString was working but now it isn't so I am wondering if arcpad has defaulted back to a location for arcpad.ini that I don't know about.

I have arcpad.ini in the following locations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\ArcPad10.0\System
C:\Windows
C:\Users\admingis\Documents\My ArcPad

I would like to only have one in the correct location for arcpad to find. Thanks

KyleCollins · Answer

[INDENT]The location of arcpad.ini pre-ArcPad 10 is: C:\Windows And in ArcPad 10 it it: C:\Users\\Documents\My ArcPad The reason it was moving was that I kept having to use run as administrator which pushed the location to the Administrator user. Once I took security off and ran arcpad it ran as the logged on user and moved arcpad.ini back to C:\Users\\Documents\My ArcPad So far ESRI does not know how to change the location of this file so you will need to make sure that all users of a tablet log on as the same user if you want all users to use the same arcpad.ini file. [/INDENT] Thanks, Good question/ good answer. One of those questions that I had that seemed to be a mystery and I never thought to ask here. But it raises the question of what to do when each FDC must have his/her own logon because they are connected to their own version of the data. Edits will not be checked back into the version if not using their own User ID and Password. < each logged on user is unique>

MelanieWawryk · Answer

The location of arcpad.ini pre-ArcPad 10 is: C:\Windows And in ArcPad 10 it it: C:\Users\\Documents\My ArcPad The reason it was moving was that I kept having to use run as administrator which pushed the location to the Administrator user. Once I took security off and ran arcpad it ran as the logged on user and moved arcpad.ini back to C:\Users\\Documents\My ArcPad So far ESRI does not know how to change the location of this file so you will need to make sure that all users of a tablet log on as the same user if you want all users to use the same arcpad.ini file.