If you’ve ever tried to move your Windows Live Writer prefs from one computer to another you’ll know what a royal pain that can turn out to be.

Sure, you might backup the registry and all the files in your utility data directory, but it just turns out to be a mess.

Scott Lovegrove has solved this problem for everybody by creating the Windows Live Writer Backup Utility, which can even be run with command line arguments for automating backups.

Backup Your Windows Live Writer Settings

The interface of the utility is simple enough, all you really need to do is nudge the world’s biggest Backup button and specify the location to save the file.

you’re able to also start it from the command line with any one of the command line arguments.

Note: If you are running this in Windows Vista you will need to choose to run it as administrator.Download Live Writer Backup Utility from ScottIsAFool’s Dev Stuff

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