Compiled exe: Need for .ini and .aliases file

[eaolson]

I don't compile a lot of applications to EXEs, but I've been doing some lately and am confused about the .alias and .ini files created by the application builder. Every time I build my app, I get one of each file created in the build directory. The .alias file contains only My Computer <My IP address> and the .ini file contains a lot of VI Server, ActiveX, and web server keys even though I'm not using any of those. The ini file is frustrating because it's cryptic to me (server.tcp.paranoid? why is server.tcp.servic misspelled?) and I imagine even more confusing to an end-user. Now I've discovered that if I delete them both, my program works just fine. The ini file gets recreated empty, but not the aliases file. So if these files are unnecessary, as they appear to be, why create them at all?