Restore Menu Settings from Program Files

[aWESomness0]

I recently had an issue on my computer and to fix it, I had to delete everything and re-install Windows. I was able to save all the files, but my programs were lost.

I've re-installed Open-Shell, but I want to get my menu settings back to the way it was before I uninstalled the program. I still have all the files from the "program files" folder for this software, is there any way that I can restore any part of my menu from that data?

[ge0rdi]

Open-Shell doesn't store any settings in Program Files folder.

Settings are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\OpenShell registry key.

[aWESomness0]

That's unfortunate. Guess I'll just have to recreate it from scratch. Thanks for letting me know!

[aWESomness0]

Actually I realized that since I had cloned my entire file system, I might have had access to the original registry values too!

After a bit of research and some cautious care, I was easily able to simply replace the current Open-Shell registry values with those from my original data* and it restored (nearly) all of the data back! The only thing I think I lost was the pinned programs but that's a breeze to restore compared to redoing what I did restore.

*(I didn't touch the ones in the subfolder of the OpenShell folder of the same name ("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\OpenShell\OpenShell") as after inspection I figured those were probably related to the current installation of Open-Shell like the version and such, not its settings)