Any program can be customized by changing options and loading data. Just think of a web browser like Chrome or a program like Word, where there is a rich menu of general settings where you can change the various preferences as you prefer.
Usually, the best programs are also the ones with the most customization options, although they can also be the more complicated ones.
In fact, if you made the wrong change, any program could stop working as you used to or, in the most serious cases, it could bring up errors caused by incorrect or corrupt settings.
In these cases, for most Windows users, the first thought that comes to mind would be to uninstall and reinstall the program so that the settings are then restored from scratch.
If for some applications this trick works, for other programs it can also not change anything because the uninstallation does not go to delete the files where the personalized preferences have been saved.
In this article we will see how to reset a program's settings to restore the original default preferences to default, without having to uninstall and reinstall that program.
First of all, if a program no longer works as before, check that there is no way to reset directly from its options .
For example, as seen, it is possible to reset Chrome and Firefox with a button in the main menu of browser settings.
Just like Chrome and Firefox, other programs also have a factory reset button.
The button can have the name Restore, Reset or Restore or even Default which means " default ".
If you do not find the option to restore the default settings or if it does not exist, there is a drastic but effective way that can lead to the reset of the program as if it were just installed.
Just delete the program data inside the Windows AppData system folder (with administrator permissions).
The AppData folder is located in the path (variable depending on the computer) C: \ Users \ username \ AppData ( username must be changed with your name used in the Windows login).
To quickly open the AppData folder just press the Windows and R keys together and run the % appdata% command.
After opening the folder C: \ Users \ username \ AppData \ Roaming, you should find, inside it, the data folder of the program to be reset.
Open it and delete any files inside it.
To be safe, move it to the desktop and permanently delete it only after having ascertained that everything is working properly and that there has been no loss of important data.
In case of problems, you can always put the folder back in its place.
If the folder with the name of the program to be reset is not found, it can be in another location and, precisely, always inside AppData, in C: \ Users \ username \ AppData \ Local .
If nothing was found even in Local and if by opening the program nothing had changed and there was still no desired restore, then you have to go to delete the program data found in C: \ ProgramData .
Bear in mind that the ProgramData folder is common to all users of the PC while the Appdata folder is only for the user logged on.
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