I am re-imaging my laptop with Windows 7 RC: it is so much fun and productivity boost to spend a day or two re-installing and re-configuring OS and apps :-) One of my favorite apps is Windows Live Writer, so I need to migrate all my Windows Live Writer settings and data. This is what I did:
- robocopy posts under “%userprofile%\Documents\My Weblog Posts”
- copy auto linking entries in “%appdata%\Windows Live Writer\LinkGlossary\linkglossary.xml”
For those curious, this is where Windows Live Writer settings are stored:
- posts:
- User dictionaries, keywords and auto links:
- other settings in registry:
For those even more curious, this is how I found out where those settings are, besides web search:
- configuration is usually persisted in registry and/or files, and those registry and files usually follow well known path convention. Registry is usually a good start. For files, try %appdata% and/or "%userprofile%.
- use sysinternals’ procmon to see what registry and files a process is accessing:
- for managed code, load all their assemblies (usually under %programfiles%) into reflector, and see how it is implemented:
- Happy blogging, and hacking :-)
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