I just recently did a clean install and I want to keep all of the Vegas settings including my special affects and all.

I know that one can use a paid software to do this, but I do not want to use a paid software. Funds are very tight right now.

So how does one do this and get all of the settings?

Good question, I'd like the answer to this question also. I have always done everything from scratch in the past but these days I don't have time.

Danny, how did you do your clean install? Did you do the download upgrade, and then make a disc and then do the clean install?

That's my understanding of how it's done, but I haven't really looked into it much.

I used the original DVD, installed to an extra hard drive and then spent hours updating.

Just for kicks, after I finally got done with all of the updates, I then cloned to another extra drive to backup the clean install and then upgraded to Windows 10.

Right now the windows 10 install is on hold because I have no audio. Sound Blaster is dragging their feet getting the latest drivers out.

If SB takes too long to get the drivers out and/or if the drivers are not so good then I will simply use Windows 7 Ultimate and forget about Windows 10. Also, if there are other problems using Windows 10.

The reason for the clean install is because my system was getting flaky and if I put any video on the timeline with a high bit rate, it can cause Vegas to crash. I am not sure yet if that is a software and/or hardware problem. I cannot find out until I get Vegas fully installed with all of my settings and filter packages.

Well, maybe I can figure things out without getting everything installed but if things still fail then I do not want to mess with it.

It is always good to have some extra hard drives available to do this. I am not about to mess with my current install until after I am 100% satisfied with the new install.

Where does Vegas store your settings? If it's just some kind of config file in the application data folder, in theory you could copy that folder.

I know that I wouldn't want to lose some of my motion graphics and color correction presets. :)

Some of settings are stored here:
1. c:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Sony\Vegas Pro\13.0\
2. <my documents>\Vegas Application Extensions\
3. <my documents>\OFX Presets\
4. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DXTransform\Presets
5. For migrating audio presets can be used Sony Preset Manager from here Sony Creative Software - Download: Utilities (http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/utilities)

I gave up...

I found a lot of settings in the users/roaming and whatever the rest of the path is. I tried Vegasaur but I then realized that with ALL of the junk that needs to be re-installed, the entire idea was becoming way too stressful and simply not worth it!!!

So I cloned-backup my current system and successfully upgraded it to Windows 10. To my total amazement! I have yet to finish testing it so I will update more later on. Hopefully Windows 10 will have cleaned-up some of the messes that I have made over time.

Windows 10 install dumped the Nvidia driver so I had to download the latest driver. This did not happen on the clean install of Windows 7. Whatever...

I just want to get this done and get back to editing.

Thanks to all for the replies!