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I have some settings in my app.config which I intend to be 'global' - ie. any user can change them, and all users get the same setting. But unless I change them to be user settings, they are read only. Why is this? And how should I go about persisting my app's global settings? Edit: This is actually a windows service application which runs as a service as LocalSystem. It can also be run manually by a local admin with argument "/config", which launches a windows form to edit configuration values. So it will have write access to %PROGRAMFILES% in both situations. The way I am accessing my settings is thusly: Settings.Default.MySetting = MyNewValue; And when MySetting is set to Application (in my project properties, Settings.settings), I get a compile-time error "MySetting is read only". I am new to this stuff, and have not yet found a very good explanation of how it is supposed to be done. For example, why do I need to say 'Default', and what does that actually mean? I have no idea. If anyone can point me to an app.config usage tutorial, that would be really helpful.

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