Clearing application settings

I was playing around with fonts while testing an issue, and ended up with a very hard to read cursive script. I could have went in and tried to find the original font, but I figured it would be easier to just revert Understand back to its initial settings.

There can be several good reasons for resetting any application to the default, freshly-installed settings. It could be you simply want to go back to the initial windows layout, or it may be something as ugly as a bad setting that causes the application to crash on startup. Whatever the reason, you can quickly clear your settings with these steps:

1. Close the application if it is running.

2. Navigate to where the settings files are stored.

• On Windows you may have to enable "Show Hidden Files and Folders"
• Windows 2000/XP – C:\Documents and Settings\USERID\Application Data\Scientific Toolworks, Inc
• Windows Vista –  C:\Users\USERID\AppData\Roaming\Scientific Toolworks, Inc
• On Linux/Unix – ~/.config/Scientific Toolworks, Inc.
• On Mac OS X – ~/Library/Preferences/com.scitools.Understand.plist

3. Rename/Delete the settings file.
There is a settings file for each of our installed products.e.g understand.conf, trackback.ini. Rename the file if there is any chance you want to revert to these settings again, otherwise delete the file associated with the application

4. Restart the application.
It should now be restored to it's pristine, freshly-installed state.