how to backup my Avast congifuration settings?

Is there a possibility to backup the configuration settings of Avast in case of de and reinstallation?

If you have made changes to the avast4.ini file yes you could save that, or if you customised the insert note in clean emails, you can save those files.

Otherwise, no there is no saving any configurations; there shouldn’t be that many configurations that need to be saved. Is there some thing in particular that you are trying to preserve ?

no, I just want to know how to save the confing settings in general… backups are always good :slight_smile:

If you have made changes to the avast4.ini file
what do you mean with changes in avast.ini. To change the ini file in editor or what? Or you mean when I have changed some settings in Avast?

If you don’t know what it means it is very unlikely you have done anything like this. There are manual changes that can be made to avast settings, which aren’t in the GUI, but can be done manually by changing the .ini file.

Generally settings changed in the GUI aren’t seen in the avast4.ini file.

so , how can I backup the changes in the Avast GUI settings?

As I said you can’t (“Otherwise, no there is no saving any configurations”) as there is no backup function.

avast.ini, avast.db (if you install in the same folder as before), skins folder (and maybe Chest) are what you “can” backup.

in which folder are they (because I am not on my PC now)?

C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4
and
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\Skin

Avast4.ini backups the settings defined when rightclick on “A” and then choose Settings.
But how can I back up the setings which I make for the different Avast Guards (Network, WebGuard…)?

thanks

You can’t. They could develop a settings/configurations save to (backup), but I never heard about that.
You can test saving the database (avast.db).