How to backup and reset Illustrator Preferences on Windows

Published: 10 June 2022
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Resetting Illustrator preferences resolves a variety of performance issues. Watch this video to reset Illustrator preferences manually after taking a backup of the Preferences folder, using keyboard shortcuts, and from within the application preferences.

To manually backup and reset Illustrator preferences on Windows, copy the “Adobe Illustrator [version number] Settings” folder from this location “%AppData%\Adobe” and save it to a different location. Once saved, you can delete the folder and relaunch Illustrator.

To see how to do this on a Mac computer, go here!
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0:00 Manually Backup & Reset Preferences
0:28 Reset Preferences using Shortcuts
0:39 Reset Preferences from within the app preferences.

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