Saving Information

I am a newbie programmer into the VB world...but I know quite a bit. I just don't understand strings, .inis, .bas', etc. I could use some help with this...and I need to learn how to save information to a file VB can open(like a save file in a game). ## Deliverables I would like to learn how to save information, the purpose of bas, ini, modules, and other technical things, and i would like to find a way to easily do this. ## Deadline information I don't really have any "standards", but i would prefer it if they had AOL...and the work....ummmm, i'd say about a month or so.