I’ve been having some serious
slow down problems with my PC and a friend suggested I simply reinstall Windows
as a means of cleaning up the mess on my computer. I’m okay with that but I
hate to lose all those application settings. Every time I reformatted and
reinstalled Windows I spend days resetting my application settings afterwards.
Is there some way to save all those settings and restore them after my Windows
reset?
Wiping your hard drive and
reinstalling Windows can be a daunting process especially if you do it
yourself. Even if you get the help of a professional doing that work that
person isn’t going to reset all of your settings in all your applications that
you lost when you reformatted your hard drive and reinstalled Windows. To do
that, you have actually go to each application and reset your settings, for
example, in Microsoft Word you might have stored away your initials and they
would be gone once you have reformatted your hard drive.
We ran across a new
application recently that might save you some time, it’s called CloneApp and
you will find a link to it on our website. This is a new application the
purports to be able to save settings for most Windows applications. We tried it
out for Microsoft Office, it seemed to work. We saved the settings to an
external drive, reformatted the hard drive, reinstalled Office and restored the
settings from that external hard drive. It’s a new application, we can’t
guarantee that it will work in every case but it’s worth giving it a try. Check
out CloneApp on the web and there is a link on our website.
http://lifehacker.com/cloneapp-backs-up-all-your-windows-program-settings-1710987383