[RESOLVED] Settings and power troubles

[detlion1643]

I have been using this code for a while now on my development machine and it worked all the time. Now, my test machine is a laptop without a battery. When the laptop loses power and shuts down immediately, the next time it turns back on just fine but my program starts having issues while loading.
Spare the, this isn't safe for the laptop, I know, but it's all I can do until I mod the power button.
Anyways, the program acts like the settings were never there, never initialized, never contained properties, nothing. I added the try/catch block and every time I start the program it always enters the catch block.
I am saving all the settings for the program every 15 seconds, but not closing the program is causing major problems. Is there anyway around this, or am I sol?

Try
            If My.Settings.firstresolution = "" Or My.Settings.firstresolution Is Nothing Then
                My.Settings.firstresolution = "800x480"
                resolution = "800x480"
            Else
                resolution = My.Settings.firstresolution
            End If
        Catch
        End Try

Try
            If My.Settings.SkinFolder Is Nothing Or My.Settings.SkinFolder = "" Then
                My.Settings.SkinFolder = resolution & "\Default"
                Form1.skinfolder = resolution & "\Default"
            Else
                Form1.skinfolder = My.Settings.SkinFolder
            End If
        Catch
        End Try