Hi !
Nice forum !
I use avast! 4.6 Home and it is really the best freeware anti-virus software I’ve ever used
I always want to keep a proper order in my operating system and I often restore my drive backups or just format my C:/ operating partition.
After restoring a clean backup or formating a system drive it’s quite difficult to configure every application from the beginning. So I decided to create my own Delphi application for making copies of all important configuration files of my main applications
So my question is how can I save all avast! settings ? Which files do I have to copy from avast! directory to my another D:/ partition ? Or maybe all settings are stored in a registry and I can export a REG file with all settings ?
Thanks a lot for all replies in this thread.
Greetings !
Files: avast4.ini file and avast4.mdb on Avast\DATA folder.
Registry keys: [HKLM\Software\Alwil Company]
In fact you can’t save much more info than this…
Oh, I forgot, save the *.html and *.txt files if you change the clean notes added to emails (Avast\ENGLISH folder).
And save your downloaded skins (Avast\DATA\Skin).
Well, the fact is that I found two locations of registry keys. One is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ALWIL Software
and the second one is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ALWIL Software
I see there are differences between them. Different binary and string values. So I’m not sure what to do know. I know I can make a backup of all of them but I don’t want to storage any unnecessary settings or registry entries that can change in next versions of avast! So I would be thankful for one more advice.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ALWIL Software\Avast\4.0\RegData
is important at the first one.
You’re right, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ALWIL Software, is more important as settings than the other.
