New to Vista (and this forum). Does anyone know the location where Vista keeps its personal setting? I want to be able to save things such as fonts, colors of borders of applications, desktop icons etc. I have had 2 crashes with Vista so far and have spend alot of time trying to get everything back to the way I want.
Thanks for any Help.

See if this helps:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...es/backup.aspx


And just to add:

We have no idea what you mean by "crash" nor what steps you took to rectify the issue.

That being said if a two month old computer required a full reinstall of the operating system twice then I'd seriously consider returning that computer under its warranty for replacement.


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Thanks for the quick reply.
First, the "crashes" were problems with Vista. I got fed up with being told that I didn't have the right to start or run some programs that I started stopping services to try correct this. Then I calmed down and did some research. I then used the command line "net user Administrator /active:yes" to create a true admin account. This worked but I lost all settings I had made. It was like a complete reinstall of Vista - everything was set to default.
This is when I restored an image of C:\ that I had made the week before. I want to do the command line again but don't want to spend hours "resetting" everything.
My understanding of the "backups" you suggested is that if I backup, then used the command line and then restored the backup I would be right back to square one, (without the admin account).
What I would like is to know where "setting" are located to I can copy them, change Vista and then replace new default setting with the copy I made.
Does this make sense or is there another way to go?
Thanks

Although this is intended for transfer between computers I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Disregard the cable but check out the option to copy to external drive or burn to DVD.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...-transfer.aspx

Another possibility is simply to backup the Registry when you have it set as you like and then on a regular basis. ERUNT is good for that:

ERUNT and NTREGOPT


Most of these settings are set in the registry.