WINTAM.INI file

Andrew Carrick · February 19, 2010, 03:42:00 AM

One of our users couldn't get into Homebase this morning, turned oput his INI file had disappearred. I just used the CTX file to recreate it, but anybody know how or why it should vanish? Didn't even leave a goodbye note....

Bloody Jack Kidd · February 19, 2010, 08:03:10 AM

couldn't say why it would go bye-bye (other than user error).

Isn't tamini.exe /r suppose to recreate that file for you?

Mark · February 19, 2010, 09:13:57 AM

Quote from: Rick Chisholm on February 19, 2010, 08:03:10 AM
Isn't tamini.exe /r suppose to recreate that file for you?

Yes

Andrew Carrick · February 23, 2010, 06:02:57 AM

For info - this user had got into our 2nd Citrix server rather than his normal No. 1. That's no reason why an INI file should disappear but seems to be the reason.

Bloody Jack Kidd · February 23, 2010, 06:39:17 AM

roaming profiles?

Andrew Carrick · February 23, 2010, 06:44:06 AM

Keep talking... (I'm not a Citrix expert)

Bloody Jack Kidd · February 23, 2010, 06:51:27 AM

If your users are NOT using roaming profiles, this problem might make sense. We use roaming profiles with all our thin client users. Also in our case, wintam.ini is located in each user's personal home folder under the windows directory.

e.g. p:\windows\wintam.ini

Andrew Carrick · February 23, 2010, 06:52:15 AM

Ah, so. Thank you, will investigate.

Andrew Carrick · February 23, 2010, 09:35:46 AM

Quote from: Rick Chisholm on February 19, 2010, 08:03:10 AM
Isn't tamini.exe /r suppose to recreate that file for you?

Just an update for any UK users out there - this works but you'll need to remember to edit the new INI file to add the UK settings section.

Another question on the WINTAM.INI file - over time they seem to grow due to blank lines appearing, anybody else seen this? File size usually around 2Kb but how big is yours?

Hans Manhave · February 23, 2010, 09:45:08 AM

1.3K, sir. It's supposed to snow again today.

Gene Foraker · February 23, 2010, 10:49:35 AM

22k.

Ha, Ha, mine is bigger than yours.

Andrew Carrick · February 23, 2010, 10:51:54 AM

I bet it's full of blanks

Gene Foraker · February 23, 2010, 10:55:53 AM

Yup, I hadn't looked at it in a very long time. Lots of blank lines. Doesn't seem to cause any problem that way.

Andrew Carrick · February 23, 2010, 10:57:19 AM

No, it's no problem at all, just a bit weird.

Bloody Jack Kidd · February 23, 2010, 11:01:17 AM

well, since we're comparing...

5686 bytes

8192 bytes on disk (thanks to 4KB NTFS clusters)

...and that ladies and gentlemen is how you loose space on your precious disks