Prior to Windows 95, all configuration information related to your operating system, programs installed on it and hardware devices connected to it was saved in separate INI files. At that time computers had very small and expensive storage space and system memory. And, having several INI files on the disk not only cluttered the hard disk and consumed loads of storage space, but also ate up a lot of system memory.

Code Errors: Introduction

If you have worked on computers long enough, it is quite likely that you have been affected by troublesome computer errors. Computer errors may occur due to several reasons, some of which are quite small and displayed just to indicate that you are not doing things the right way, and some occur because something has gone wrong with the system. It is this second type of error that causes most of the problems.