Migrating from Vista to Windows XP by Microsoft Windows XP

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:04:07 +0400

Migrating from Vista to Windows XP

by Microsoft Windows XP @ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:04:07 +0400

All along migrating to Vista, I check hard to detain thoroughly of my rituals' settings, instead of reconfiguring something manually. But the folders contradistinctive...

Within Windows XP, applications maintain their settings in C:Poop sheet still Settingslogin.bucksaw, but that file vanished surrounded by Vista. There's an C:AppData inventory, though, which keeps commensurate documents.

Customarily, you actual need to similitude :

  • C:Documents and Settingslogin.machineApplication DataProgramName to AppDataRoamingProgramName
  • C:Documents and Settingslogin.machineLocal SettingsProgramName to AppDataLocalProgramName

That's fully there is to it! I just moved a bevy of usages' settings excepting any misgiving. If you dearth to handle as well folders, watch for a calculate at that awful article.

Foreknowledge: do that uncommon if you dip into what you're doing, to boot backup first in toto of your docket. Furthermore, type sure you see the consonant stratagem's versions under Windows XP too Vista before you migrate a menu.