I had to use Gvim on a Windows machine recently and completely tripped up on the "modeless" mode. Thought there was something wrong with my .vimrc when I starte

I had to use Gvim on a Windows machine recently and completely tripped up on the "modeless" mode. Thought there was something wrong with my .vimrc when I started in insert mode after typing and couldn't leave that mode! :set im!