Best place to save user information for Windows XP and Vista applications
I need to save a user's login information in encrypted form for this application I'm building, but I'm not sure of the best place to save the file. I don't want to save it into the program application folder as I want it per user. So what is the best folder (or way) to save it into? Edit: Using C++. Seems like C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data may be the appropriate place according to Wikipedia . The article says this location is used for "User-specific and computer-specific application settings". Edit: Cruizer pointed out in the comments (I'd reply there but