Remembering Program Settings

When I want the program to remember the input/settings from the last time I so far always stored them to the registry. Even if you delete the program it won't delete the settings it saved but the settings are always kept even if you download a new version of the application so it might be easier to handle.

Instead I could write and read all settings to a configuration file making the application fully independent from the system but there will be a .jar and a .xml configuration file which you always have to keep.

Who would like what?

If the program is too big and I don't ever use it, I end up deleting it and very rarely ever download it again. If it's like a <1 MB program, like all of your programs are, then I just keep it on my hard drive, even if I never or very rarely use it. Also, because I have a 2 TB HDD downloading small programs and never using them isn't really a problem for me.