How to force QM to always use the same "main.qml"

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Each user account has its own copy of QM settings, including custom $my qm$ path.

But QM can automatically import settings.

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Automating QM setup for multiple users
Assume, you have 10 QM licenses, and want to use QM on 10 computers. Each computer is used by 10 users (QM license allows this), and each user has its own account. You want to perform additional QM configuration on each computer (e.g., allow launching macros from the server computer). Since QM settings are saved in the registry for each user separately, you would have to configure QM 100 times. For each computer, you would have at first to configure QM on an administrator account, then repeat this for each user.



QM allows to automate distributing of QM settings. When QM starts, it looks for qmreg5.reg file in QM directory. If finds, imports it to the registry, unless it is already imported. It then places "reg loaded"=1 value in the "HKCU\Software\GinDi\QM2\settings" registry key to indicate that the file is already imported. Note: This requires administrative privileges; On Windows Vista, a consent dialog may be shown.



You only have to configure QM on one of computers. Configure it exactly as you want to see it on each computer. Then export QM settings (Options -> General), and place the reg file in an appropriate location. You can also configure QM macro-list file and automatically distribute it to all computers. All this is already described above.



The exported reg file includes the path of the current QM macro list file. You may have to open the reg file in Notepad and edit QM file path ("file"), as well as other file paths, if they are different on other computers. In file paths, you can use $qm$ (QM home folder) and $my qm$ (My Documents\My QM).