Saving Settings

Question

I'm working on my first project. I have many options such as form sizes, image attributes, and colors that are stored in hashtables. What would be the best way to save these settings so I don't have to create them at runtime and the default settings could be changed and saved? Also, it takes alot of code to get the attributes out of a hashtable nested in three more hashtables. What method do you use when having many variables that need to be moved around classes, such as form options? Thanks in advance.