[Qgis-user] storage of configs beside .qgis2

[Tobias Wendorff]

Hey Stefan,

Am Mo, 5.06.2017, 21:08 schrieb st_kiefer at web.de:
>
> nowadays I use only Linux. But when I was using Windows QGis wrote its
> settings also to the Registry. Maybe check that (I don't remember well,
> it was somthing H_LOCAL_KEY......Software/Qgis). Hope that helps.

Thanks.

Yep, you're right. Removing the key (after backup this one of course)
helped me. I didn't think of the fact that QGIS uses registry at all...
maybe we should file this as a bug, hehe :)

Best regards,
Tobias

> Am 05.06.2017 um 20:23 schrieb Tobias Wendorff:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm on QGIS rel-dev on Windows 7. I've removed my .qgis2 config folder,
>> but there are still many settings stored when restarting QGIS (f.e.
>> the URLs to WMS, WFS etc.).
>>
>> Even after wiping the complete OSGeo4W-installation directory, those
>> configs still exist. I can't get a clean QGIS environment :(
>>
>> Anyone with an idea, where those configs are stored?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobias