diff --git a/modules/juce_core/system/juce_TargetPlatform.h b/modules/juce_core/system/juce_TargetPlatform.h
index 2deabebe48..f1e8fe649e 100644
--- a/modules/juce_core/system/juce_TargetPlatform.h
+++ b/modules/juce_core/system/juce_TargetPlatform.h
@@ -46,13 +46,19 @@
 #ifdef JUCE_APP_CONFIG_HEADER
  #include JUCE_APP_CONFIG_HEADER
 #elif ! defined (JUCE_GLOBAL_MODULE_SETTINGS_INCLUDED)
- /* Most projects will want to contain a global header file containing settings that
-    should be applied to all the modules when building them. The projucer will set
-    this up automatically, but if you're doing things manually, you may want to set
-    the JUCE_APP_CONFIG_HEADER macro with the name of a file to include, or just include
-    one before all the module cpp files, and set JUCE_GLOBAL_MODULE_SETTINGS_INCLUDED
-    in it to silence this error. (Or if you don't need a global header, then you can
-    just set JUCE_GLOBAL_MODULE_SETTINGS_INCLUDED to stop this error)
+ /*
+    Most projects will contain a global header file containing various settings that
+    should be applied to all the code in your project. If you use the projucer, it'll
+    set up a global header file for you automatically, but if you're doing things manually,
+    you may want to set the JUCE_APP_CONFIG_HEADER macro with the name of a file to include,
+    or just include one before all the module cpp files, in which you set
+    JUCE_GLOBAL_MODULE_SETTINGS_INCLUDED=1 to silence this error.
+    (Or if you don't need a global header, then you can just define JUCE_GLOBAL_MODULE_SETTINGS_INCLUDED
+    globally to avoid this error).
+
+    Note for people who hit this error when trying to compile a JUCE project created by
+    a pre-v4.2 version of the Introjucer/Projucer, it's very easy to fix: just re-save
+    your project with the latest version of the Projucer, and it'll magically fix this!
  */
  #error "No global header file was included!"
 #endif