Labview.ini and graph rescaling

Hi everyone,
I'm using Labview 71. and 8.0 on Mac OSX.
It used to be (under Laview 6) that to disable graph rescaling a one line labview.ini file would do the job. The one line would be
EnableAutoScales=False
See for example
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3815
This would work if you put the labview.ini file in the same directory as the Labview application.
Now, with Labviews 7 and 8, its not working anymore, well at least not for me.
Has the name of the file changed? (Does its capitalization matter?) Has it been superceeded by some other mechanism?
Exactly where should the file be? (Mine is in bootdrive:Applications:National Instruments:Labview 7.1
Has the syntax of labview.ini changed? (Is that single line sufficient?)
I noticed that the valuable web page discussing INI files, labview.brianrenken.com/ini, is not working right now.
Thanks in advance,
Peter H.

PGH wrote:
It used to be (under Laview 6) that to disable graph rescaling a one line labview.ini file would do the job. The one line would be
EnableAutoScales=False
Now, with Labviews 7 and 8, its not working anymore, well at least not for me.
I think that the the global .ini entry EnableAutoScales=False disappeared from use as of LV6.1 when it was replaced with the ability to right-click (or do the Mac equivalent) on individual graphs and toggle Advanced>Auto Adjust Scales.
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