How to Backup and Restore Microsoft News app Settings in Windows 10


The Microsoft News app is a preinstalled UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app in Windows 10 that delivers breaking news and trusted, in-depth reporting from the world's best journalists.

  • Microsoft's editors curate the most trusted, important, interesting and trending news
  • You choose which topics matter most to you.
  • Microsoft News updates you with notifications of breaking news, quickly and accurately, 24/7
  • Sync your preferences across the app and the Web.

Microsoft News works in partnership with hundreds of publishers in dozens of countries globally. Select from editions in more 20 countries, carrying content from 3,000 top brands.

Microsoft News makes it easy to for you to keep informed, to intuitively move from story to story, and from section to section. The clean design lets you read articles without clutter, with useful features like a dark mode for nighttime reading. The app is free to download and use with no limits on how many articles or videos you can view.

If you use the Microsoft News app, you can manually backup your settings and local location to manually restore as needed to any account on any Windows 10 PC.

This tutorial will show you how to manually backup and restore your settings and local location for the Microsoft News app in Windows 10.


Contents

  • Option One: To Backup Settings and Local Location from Microsoft News app
  • Option Two: To Restore Settings and Local Location to Microsoft News app



EXAMPLE: Microsoft News app settings and local location
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OPTION ONE

To Backup Settings and Local Location from Microsoft News app


1 If the Microsoft News app is currently open, close it.

2 Open File Explorer (Win+E), copy and paste the folder location below into the address bar of File Explorer, and press Enter.

(current account)
%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.BingNews_8wekyb3d8bbwe

3 Copy the Settings folder to your desktop. (see screenshot below)

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4 Move the Settings folder on your desktop to where want to keep it saved at as your backup. It is safe to rename this folder to anything you like if wanted.

5 You can now close File Explorer if you like.






OPTION TWO

To Restore Settings and Local Location to Microsoft News app


Restoring a backup of your settings in the News app will replace your current settings.


1 If the Microsoft News app is currently open, close it.

2 Open File Explorer (Win+E), copy and paste the folder location below into the address bar of File Explorer, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

(current account)
%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.BingNews_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings

How to Backup and Restore Microsoft News app Settings in Windows 10-news_app_restore-1.jpg

3 In a separate File Explorer window, open the backed up Settings folder from Option One, select the contents in this folder, right click or press and hold on the selected items, and click/tap on Copy. (see screenshot below)

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4 Paste the selected files from the backup in step 3 into the Settings folder from step 2.

5 When prompted, click/tap on Replace the files in the destination. (see screenshot below)

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6 You can now close the File Explorer windows if you like.


That's it,
Shawn