Based on user reports and technical analysis, this error is not usually a sign of a virus or data corruption on your hard drive. Instead, it is an internal software conflict where the application fails to read its own initialization (INI) or XML configuration files required to start up.

MiniTool Partition Wizard (Free and Paid Editions) Issue Focus: "Invalid Configure File" Error Message Verdict: ★★★☆☆ (3/5) — A powerful partition manager hampered by occasional configuration glitches, though usually recoverable.

does acknowledge the issue but typically recommends the same manual deletion of config files. There is no built-in "repair config" button.

"Invalid Config File"