# Lost TOAD Settings during a bluescreen.

**URL:** <https://forums.toadworld.com/t/lost-toad-settings-during-a-bluescreen/38210>\
**Category:** Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit\
**Created:** [August 17, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/lost-toad-settings-during-a-bluescreen/38210 "2016-08-17T17:18:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![ServiceAccount\_Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@ServiceAccount\_Toad](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/ServiceAccount_Toad)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/lost-toad-settings-during-a-bluescreen/38210/1 "2016-08-17T17:18:28Z")

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My machine blue-screened in the middle of a TOAD session and I have lost all of my connections, settings, etc.

Can I get them back?!?!

Thanks,

Tony

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**Author:** ![Irish88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@Irish88](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Irish88)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/lost-toad-settings-during-a-bluescreen/38210/2 "2016-08-18T10:56:04Z")

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I found the user files at C: \ Users \ \ AppData \ Roaming \ Quest Software \ Toad For Oracle \ 11.0 \ UserFiles.

From this folder, I ran this simple one liner from a command line to output the contents to a .TXT file:

DIR /OD \> C:\MyDataDir\Toad\_UserConfiguration\_Files.txt

Then I went one level deeper to: C:\Users\<MyUsername\>\AppData\Roaming\Quest Software\Toad for Oracle\11.0\User Files\*_GUISettings_\*

and ran this from a command line to create another TXT file of the contents of this folder:

DIR /OD \> C:\MyDataDir\Toad\_UserConfiguration\_Files\_GUISettings.txt

Save off these folders somewhere and re-load them should you need to re-install Toad.

(Toad Experts: If I missed anything here, please jump in) 🙂