It says that most active traders here use IB ? As of closing IB's account, ime, as well as in the opinion of the rep I talked to at that time, it's better to remove all available funds before requesting the account closure, I've always found IB withdrawal system very efficient, even internationally, but witnessed some technical difficulties upon closing an account there.
Do you store the settings on the server/save at close? My settings are always last used, so no problems here... with fresh installation, you download from the server, or just earlier saved locally...
The problem is , if your settings are corrupt, you have to start from SCRATCH with every single ridiculous setting. There are literally well over a hundred if you count custom column layouts and colors
PS Try to get your Time and Sales columns to retain their custom positional order from one session to the next.
You guys should learn to program or hire you own programmers. I trade with IB using my own custom front end GUIs that do exactly what i need and want. TWS has to try and do everything for everyone and is going to be poor in a lot of use cases.
I know, have been trying to get into that but a 1 and 4 year old means no more free time until 2030...
Ib will be happy to know that you completely discard their front end they have spent millions developing. How about a screen shot of your Gui, it must be something to behold.