Saving Visual Studio Settings

I always customize my Visual Studio settings - colours, keyboard shortcuts, window positions, and all that. It's always been difficult to backup those settings, though, either just to keep them safe, or for if you need to reinstall VS, or if you want to copy those same settings to another installation on another PC. After doing that a lot of times, you tend to start only customizing the major things and leaving the rest as default, which is a bit sad.

I know VS 2005 has the facility to save and restore settings, which is great but not so useful for those of us still using 2003. Which is why I went looking - again - for a way to save settings, and this time I actually found something! Basically it amounts to exporting a couple of registry settings, and copying a couple of files in your app settings directory - the full details are here on SteveHarman.net.

Haven't tried it yet - I backed up the settings on Friday, and will try a restore with my fresh install of VS on Monday. Looks like it should work though.