Funkster,
Either you didn't read my post or you think I'm lying. Try reading the manual on ReadProfileString() and WriteProfileString().

You can't have just the machine name but you could have it in headings:
[machine1]
[machine2]
[machine3]
[machine4]

It's all in the manual.
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