Comment 2 for bug 1176112

Thank you for the response. I could not remember if I had installed as single or multi-user, so I just uninstalled Inkscape and re-installed it, making sure to: install for all users; and delete previous preferences. (I did rename the previous Roaming/Inkscape directory so I would still have it for reference).

There is only a single Inkscape.exe instance on my computer.

I allowed Inkscape to run the first time after installation and did nothing other than close the window. Then, I checked the preferences.xml file and found it to start with the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<inkscape
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
   version="1">
  <group
     id="window">
    <group
       id="task"
       taskset="2" />

It is attached as preferencesA.xml

When I did this uninstall / re-install, it deleted all of the "good" user's Roaming/Inkscape directory and recreated it with seemingly the same strange preferences.xml as shown above. It is attached as preferencesB.xml

I have run the program from the Program Files(86)/Inkscape directory for both users as requested.

Surprisingly, user A still gets the bad behavior, but user B gets good behavior: even though the preferences.xml files for both users seem the same and somewhat anomalous.