Saving all your preferences?

I saw an article on this a while back but can't seem to find it anywhere. Isn't there a way to save all your preferences at once? Print presets, dictionary additions, etc.? Seems like it was an article about saving your version of InDesign (your preferences that is) on a USB drive or something.....
Thanks, Phyllis

Copy the user profile.
It used to be a little simpler, you could save just the Application Data\Adobe\Indesign\[version] folder, but since CS3 some stuff is also stored in the Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Indesign\[version] folder. I suppose you could copy just those two if you like, or the parent Adobe folders on each path to get all applications. Pick your poison.
Peter

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