# Why is nim not picking up my user cfg on Windows ?
D:\User>nim c -r test.nim
Hint: used config file
'C:\Users\User\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-#devel\config\nim.cfg' [Conf]
Hint: used config file
'C:\Users\User\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-#devel\config\config.nims' [Conf]
........................................................................
Hint:  [Link]
Hint: mm: orc; threads: on; opt: none (DEBUG BUILD, `-d:release` generates
faster code)
27959 lines; 0.921s; 30.48MiB peakmem; proj: D:\User\test.nim; out:
D:\User\test.exe [SuccessX]
Hint: D:\User\test.exe [Exec]
# It should find the one in `%APPDATA%/nim/nim.cfg` as per the[docs](https://nim-
# lang.github.io/Nim/nimc.html#compiler-usage-configuration-files).