I've kinda been teaching myself on how to use VB.net and I made a program that stores information for my games and programs. I am using My.Settings to store the information but I found out that after I reformatted my computer and re-installed windows all of the information is gone. So what I want to know how to do is encrypt all of the information that is in My.Settings then save it through the Save Dialog so the user is allow to save the file where ever they want to save it. Then when the user wants to open the file have them select the file and decrypt it and load it back in to the program.