Normally, changes should take effect immediatly. The thing is that some programs only read the settings when they start, so if the program is already started, that program should be restarted. It all depends on what you change, and when the programs that use these settings read them.

Tom Cannaerts
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning -- Rich Cook