Comment 4 for bug 703517

I have found an old copy of the preferences.xml file
on my external drive in folder similar to Windows user location above (copy from my old Vista files).

What i have done is renaming the file to preferences_old and have copied the file
to my C:\Users\joro\Application Data\Inkscape folder - the latter have been created by me (on Win 7).

So my suspicion is that from some reason Inkscape tries to locate it's configuration file (or locates a duplicate one)
and might have found those on my backup drive (i have one with linux configuration folder too).

But on the other hand, Inkscape has a trail of my recent files when opening before
and they were accurate. The location of preferences.xml file on Win 7 remains a mistery for me
but for now Inkscape works fine. Attaching one of the old XML files from the external hdd.