The latest in an occasional series of "this is weird" posts from me. :-)

I run my Poser 7, as I did all my previous versions, from a portable hard drive. It doesn't require installing, and I can use it on whatever computer happens to be handy. To achieve this, I installed as normal, then moved everything from C:Program FilesSmith Micro to my portable drive. It all worked, but I noticed that version 7 was keeping its settings - Poser.ini, LibraryPrefs.xml and so on in C:Documents and SettingsUsernameApplication DataPoser 7. Previous versions had kept these files in the Poser directory, but no matter, I synchronised the settings folders between the two machines I used and all was well.

Recently I did some registry cleaning and got rid of some entries associated with Poser, mainly file associations. Some other stuff got zapped at the same time, and although Poser still works, takes up the UI I want when I start it up, and knows where all my runtimes are, I can't find the settings files any more!

I've done a system-wide search, as well as manually browsing the obvious places like the Poser executable folder, C:Documents and SettingsUsernameApplication Data, C:Documents and SettingsUsernameLocal SettingsApplication Data, the same folders under Administrator and All Users, and also Program Files and My Documents. My preferences are set to display all files including hidden and system files. I can't find Poser.ini anywhere, and I know that does get updated every time I use Poser. Or I thought it did... So how does Poser know what UI I wanted, where my runtimes are, and so forth?

It must be clairvoyant. :-)