How to Backup and Restore Action Center Quick Actions in Windows 10
The Action Center in Windows 10 has personalized quick actions at the bottom, which get you to your most-used settings and apps instantly. For example, to be able to easily toggle on/off or open items such as Airplane mode, All settings, Connect, Display, Location, Note, Quiet hours, Tablet Mode, VPN, and Wi-Fi.
Users can add and remove quick actions to show at the bottom of their Action Center.
This tutorial will show you how backup and restore quick actions settings in the Action Center for your account in Windows 10.
Contents
- Option One: To Backup your Chosen Quick Actions in Action Center
- Option Two: To Restore your Chosen Quick Actions in Action Center
EXAMPLE: Action Center Quick Actions
The downloadable .bat file below will export the registry key below to a .reg file on your desktop as a backup of your quick actions.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Quick Actions
1 Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .bat file below.
Backup_Action_Center_Quick_Actions.bat
Download
(BAT file contents for reference)
Code:REG EXPORT "HKCU\Control Panel\Quick Actions" "%userprofile%\Desktop\Action_Center_quick_actions-backup.reg" /y
2 Save the .bat file to your desktop.
3 Unblock and run the .bat file.
4 A Action_Center_quick_actions-backup.reg file will now be created on your desktop. This .reg file is your quick actions backup.
5 You can now delete the downloaded .bat file if you like.
The downloadable .bat file below will delete the registry key below to clear Quick Actions, and then merge the backup Action_Center_quick_actions-backup.reg file on your desktop to restore the backup of your quick actions.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Quick Actions
1 Move or copy the Action_Center_quick_actions-backup.reg file created from Option One to your desktop.
2 Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .bat file below.
Restore_Action_Center_Quick_Actions.bat
Download
(BAT file contents for reference)
Code:REG DELETE "HKCU\Control Panel\Quick Actions" /F REG IMPORT "%userprofile%\Desktop\Action_Center_quick_actions-backup.reg" taskkill /f /im explorer.exe start explorer.exe
3 Save the .bat file to your desktop.
4 Unblock and run the .bat file.
5 You will now notice a command prompt quickly open and close, and your desktop quickly flash as the explorer process is restarted to apply.
6 You can now delete the downloaded .bat file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn
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