How to export RocketDock settings?

[Berryracer]

I spent an hour choosing all my icons and settings..

How do I save these settings incase I reinstall the appp in the future so I won't have to redo everything from scratch?

I have the setting enabled to store the config in an ini file (single user)

 

[Dahak]

from what i can tell from the online help, if you backup the settings.ini file located in the rocketdock dir it should keep all the settings that you have configured.

 

[Berryracer]

from what i can tell from the online help, if you backup the settings.ini file located in the rocketdock dir it should keep all the settings that you have configured.

alright thanks man. Ill try that

 

[Pousska]

All the Rocketdock user settings are stored in the windows registry.

\HKey_Current_User\Software\RocketDock

You can see them when running regedit.exe from the run command and opening the folders to get to the above path.

Go to that folder, right click and "export" the folder settings, and you've got your custom setup in a ".reg" file of your naming.

Copy that file over to the computer you'd like the settings to be also on. Install RocketDock on the new computer.

Then, use a program like SaferNetwork's RegAlyzer on that computer and right click / import on the "Software" folder that has the RocketDock folder in it to put the settings in the same place in the registry (you might have to delete the rocketdock folder first).

https://www.safer-networking.org/products/regalyzer/

You'll have to move the hard drive folder where you have the custom icons or other files you've used onto the 2nd computer as well and have all the same programs installed, of course, with the same path for these to show up correctly at first crack. You may have to adjust some program paths...

Be sure the link in the registry setting: CustomIconFolder is set to that migrated Icon path (with a ? mark in front of the path.

Note: This was for Windows 8.1. If importing to Windows 10, use the Programs 64 folder, as it has two "Program" folders there. It's the one with RocketDock already in it

Also, you may need to close and then reopen RegAlizer to see the import worked and close and reopen RocketDock to see the new settings take effect.

 

[kirkdickinson]

I am trying to export the RocketDock settings just so two users on the same machine can have the same settings. I have looked at the ini file, but since that is in the programs directory, that is the same for both users. I have tried exporting the registry from one user, deleting the old registry for the new user and then imported the saved, that doesn't work either.

There apparently is some other place where these settings are saved. Anybody have any ideas?

This is a really old program with no update in a long time, but we have used it in our office so long that nobody knows how to use windows without it. Wish this was a supported program, I would buy it.

Thanks,

Kirk