[jlgreco]

99% of all dotfiles that I am aware of are named for the programs that they are for. Bash's start with .bash, Zsh's with .zsh, mplayer is .mplayer, Vim's start with .vim, elinks is .elinks, screen's start with .screen, Dropbox is .dropbox... I'm not sure how any of that is hard to remember. The only real barrier to entry here is knowing that you should look for them in the first place (well, that and the new XDG crap..).

What is actually in them is an entirely different matter.

[nakkiel]

Perhaps the op prefers to use the registry to store settings.. After all HKEY_XXX1230_APP_123 is so friendly.

[ansgri]

Excuse me, but much more typical example is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MiKTeX.org\MiKTeX\2.9\Core. The registry has rather respected conventions.

[nakkiel]

Yes, thanks.