well, judging by his later posts, it seems he does fhave it there. But nontheless your hint is right and usefull, I needed that in another similar thread 😀
Evening guys, hope you are all well 😀
Found it - thank you guys!!!!!!! It is in the appdata location you were talking about, but the start menu shortcut to edit configuration still points to C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.73 which might be worth seeing if you can remedy in the next release? 😀
Check and post the content of the link created by the dosbox installer for the edit configuration entry.
I was having the exact same problem with the my Vista laptop. I don't use any frontends or any other programs, just dosbox to play Master of Magic. Version 0.73 works great on my Windows XP computers but my Vista computer was having this issue of not being able to link to the conf file in the appdata location upon startup. I had done numerous clean reinstalls to no avail.
1) The "Edit Configuration" function does modify the dosbox-0.73.conf file located in C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\DOSbox correctly.
2) Upon startup DOSbox calls upon dosbox.conf file, which does not even exist anywhere on my laptop.
3) THE FIX -> I had to manually modify the shortcut link to start the program by using the -conf modifier to point to the the AppData file.
4) I am not a computer guru, I used to program in basic on my TI994A long ago. My only idea for a possible cause is that maybe the previously installed version on DOSbox modified the registry in regards to the default dosbox.conf file being called upon?
Strange. As far as I know, DOSBox hardly uses the registry. Only enough to create the entries in the Start menu. But obviously something strange is going on here.
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This is a Windows issue. Do you have UAC disabled? If so then when you execute DOSBox it will not look for the .conf in the Virtual Store it will look in the directory of wherever you launched dosbox.exe from.
If you are "smart" enough to disable UAC then we assume you are smart enough to locate your .conf file.
I don't know what UAC is so it's probably set to the default.
