Where are Preferences stored?

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I had to do an emergency Windows reinstall and I have reinstalled CA (same version as before problem).  I would like to get my preferences back to their previous state and was hoping that all of the preferences might be stored in one system file that I can restore from a recent backup.  Can anyone tell me if there is a file I can restore to get the preferences back?

 

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Ron

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