When I am using any of the preference programs in Workbench, I select "use" but instead, the software saves it. What is wrong with it?

This is probably due to having the ENV: assign where preferences programs store their settings pointing to the same directory as ENVARC:. In a standard startup-sequence ENV: is assigned to RAM:ENV/ and ENVARC: is assigned to Sys:Prefs/Env-Archive/ when the system boots the contents of ENVARC: are copied to ENV:.

When you click Use in a preferences program it saves its settings ONLY to ENV: therefore when you re-boot the previous settings held in ENVARC: are restored. When you click Save the settings are saved in both the ENV: and ENVARC: directories and therefore stay in effect when you re-boot.

If you want to keep ENV: on your harddisk for memory reasons then you need to make sure that ENV: is assigned to a directory other than ENVARC:. There is also a utility on Aminet in the util/boot directory called HappyENV that mounts the ENV: as a device, fetching preferences from the ENVARC: directory only when it is needed. This will greatly increase the boot time of your system.

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