# Configuring WinVN

Before you use WinVN to read news, you must give it the information it needs to contact the news server, send electronic mail, and so on. In addition, you can configure WinVN with personal preferences, such as the colors and fonts it uses, how many article titles should be automatically fetched at once, and so on.

All configuration commands are accessible from the Config menu of the main window. See Config Menu Commands.

By default, configuration information is written to the file WINVN.INI in a WinVN folder under the User's AppData Folder. (Use the Windows Run command box and enter %APPDATA% to find this folder.) The curious may wish to examine this file with a text editor. See Invoking WinVN.