VB2010. I understand how to save settings and load them from the My.Settings namespace. What I am trying to figure out is how to get the default value of a settings and present it to the user. I do...

Are My.Settings values saved in the program itself or do they get stored in the registry? So, for example, if I set a My.Settings value with a program, then I copy the program itself to another PC ...

If I rename my compiled application for example from myapp.exe to app.exe then when I run the renamed executable a new user settings folder is generated in this path: C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Local...