Beside using the registry, you can use My.Settings to store your setting. You have to create your setting in Design Time You can set this in Project Properties and point to Settings Tab. The settings will be save into XML format in your application path here's the code to change and save the settings ---------------------------------------- My.Settings.UserName = "BrazenSix" My.Settings.Subject = "About what??" My.Settings.Save() to retrieve settings value ---------------------------------------- Dim UName, USubject As String UName = My.Settings.UserName USubject = My.Settings.Subject