Thanks for the phone call, Brenda, appreciate it. The Windows "Restore Previous version" feature saved me a lot of pain because I was able to restore the wiped out buttonbarV3.ini to a previous 'stable' version. For once, thank you MS!
I see you call it a feature request, but I'd report it as a bug really, and a p0 at that

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Maintaining object state should really be a basic software requirement (and to be honest, I am a little surprised that sCRT with all its great features has such a bug - I was actually giving a demo to my ex-teammate's new group who were tired of PCM when this happened

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The software should definitely be using a copy of config files when it launches and save\backup the last stable copy as well.
Thanks
Vikram