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Editing QBW.ini

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April 27, 2018
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Hello, I'm having no success editing QBW.ini, Quickbooks 2016 PRO Desktop. I make a change to one of the values and save the file, but after opening and closing Quickbooks the value returns back to what is was before I edited the file.

QuickBooks Desktop

Best answer by ClayJ

Good evening, ssorg. Thanks for reaching out to the Community. Do you mind going into further detail as to why you are making this change? I want to make sure that you need to do this, as most problems with the QBW.ini file can be resolved by simply renaming the file. I have some steps that will tell you how to rename the QBW.ini. You can find the Qbw.ini in the following locations:

*Some of the folders are hidden, so you will need to turn on hidden folders*

C:\ProgramData\Intuit\QuickBooks[Version] where [Version] is your version of QuickBooks Desktop.
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\QuickBooks [Version] where [Version] is your version of QuickBooks.

Renaming the file usually means to change the filename.extension to Qbw.ini.old.

Let me know if this helps, or if you need anything else.

ClayJAnswer

Good evening, ssorg. Thanks for reaching out to the Community. Do you mind going into further detail as to why you are making this change? I want to make sure that you need to do this, as most problems with the QBW.ini file can be resolved by simply renaming the file. I have some steps that will tell you how to rename the QBW.ini. You can find the Qbw.ini in the following locations:

*Some of the folders are hidden, so you will need to turn on hidden folders*

C:\ProgramData\Intuit\QuickBooks[Version] where [Version] is your version of QuickBooks Desktop.
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\QuickBooks [Version] where [Version] is your version of QuickBooks.

Renaming the file usually means to change the filename.extension to Qbw.ini.old.

Let me know if this helps, or if you need anything else.