Need to reset windows but..

[Foxbyte]

Edit: It worked! Hooray! And seems the system is back to being stable (so far - knock)! Really only needed to get Wallpaper Engine moved over, mission accomplished! Thanks for the help once more!

You're awesome!

Took a while because I had a bunch of stuff to do along with waiting hours and hours for all that data in myprojects folder to transfer over (without using steam). Think I got it all set back up already now.

Guess it was about time I did a fresh install anyways.
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I need to reset Windows 11 where Wallpaper Engine is installed on my C: drive to hopefully fix an unstable system and bsods that occur too often.

The problem is.. my Wallpaper Engine projects and downloads and such are so massively large (like idk 400+ GB by now I guess in total, mainly the large video files from my projects) that every time I try to move to another disk before doing the reset it bsod before finishing.

If I just reset now with WE installed on C: drive still, I am assuming that will cause issues and I'd straight up lose it all right? Mainly the ability to edit my personal uploads?

Idk just trying to ensure I don't mess everything up somehow even doing something seemingly as simple as this

[Tim]

I would just back up the "wallpaper_engine\projects\myprojects" folder and let Steam redownload everything else after a fresh re-install. You could double-check your list of subscriptions first and then clean that up a little before reinstalling the app from scratch.

It's probably too much of a hassle to back up all Steam Workshop data if your system is that unstable.

[Foxbyte]

Thank you so so much for the super fast response! I'll take your advice and do that right now. Idk how it got this bad but yeah lol

Oh my good lord, the folder itself is 1.72TB jfc. Them video files man, of game cinematics, that'll do it

We'll see if trying to copy outside of moving through steam does the trick

[Tim]

If it's that crazy, maybe consider just resetting your Steam Workshop subscriptions entirely and add anything you really want to keep as a favorite or add it to a Workshop collection. See the "Resetting all Steam Workshop Subscriptions" section here:

https://help.wallpaperengine.io/debug/reset.html

[Foxbyte]

Originally posted by Tim:

If it's that crazy, maybe consider just resetting your Steam Workshop subscriptions entirely and add anything you really want to keep as a favorite or add it to a Workshop collection. See the "Resetting all Steam Workshop Subscriptions" section here:

https://help.wallpaperengine.io/debug/reset.html

Really appreciated, I'll refer to that. Everything you've said has been very helpful. So far it is working now (transferring the folder, 7%), but before, trying to move it through steam would get about halfway then die on me.

I guess this way if it bsod on me mid copy I can continue copying over the rest on restart. With steam it wouldn't let me, would say this already exists or something so had to delete what it already copied and try and start over and hope for the best

I truly have no idea why it has gotten so bad. It could be any number of reasons on my end. I just have been dealing with it because hey the PC still works most of the time it's more like a minor inconvenience and I really really didn't want to have to reset and redownload stuff again.

Maybe by putting it off, it got worse with time now it's like at least I don't even know, many bsod a day. Especially under heavy load. Sometimes just while doing literally nothing. AMD system. It's nothing to do with Wallpaper Engine I am most certainly positive about that

Whatever the case, I've not a clue, but hopefully a reset of windows entirely just solves it straight up