Re: all winedt 5.6 customizations disappear after uminstall 5.5

Among the weirder (to me) things that happened was that the WinEdt 5.6 
MiKTeX configuration no longer has a Texify button -- which it did when 
I installed it.  This is even after I had backed up the MiKTeX 
configuration from 5.6 before I uninstalled 5.5 and now and just 
restored that same configuration.

On 3/2/2010 4:32 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> I've had WinEdt 5.5 running on my Windows XP system for some time, and
> several weeks ago installed also 5.6. I made many customizations to the
> latter and had it running to my satisfaction -- so taht 5.5 was no
> longer needed.
>
> So I uninstalled 5.5. And now all my 5.6 customizations have
> disappeared! All the options set; all the menu additions; all the
> shortcuts added; etc.
>
> How can I fix this?
>
> Note that I did not use the uninstaller directly from the Windows
> Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs, since there was only a single
> instance of WinEdt shown there, and it was unclear whether that was for
> 5.5 or 5.6. So instead I used the Uninstall shortcut in the 5.5 Start
> menu group.
>
> WinEdt 5.6 is still here and runs. It's just all those customizations.
>
> My %b for 5.6 (which is different from the old %b for 5.5) is still
> here, too. And 5.6 lists it correctly in Configuration Wizard > User
> Profiles, Application Data.
>
> How do I fix this without having to do the hours upon hours of
> configuration again?
>
> And why did all those customizations disappear when I uninstalled the
> old version?
>
> (Even the entry for my WinEdt registration password disappeared when I
> uninstalled 5.5, and I had to enter it again in 5.6. This is NOT
> friendly behavior!)
>

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