Where's the Steam settings file?

[rado84]

I wanna have a backup of the Steam settings for the next time I have to reinstall Windows. I had set Steam to Bulgarian language interface and some other stuff like whether or not it should start with the system. However, after reinstalling Windows Steam went back to its default settings such as English language interface. So I wanna backup my client settings file. But I couldn't find it. It's not in AppData\Roaming, AppData\Local or in C:\ProgramData either. Where is it?

[Egi]

You cant do that

[wuddih]

.\Steam\config
.\Steam\userdata\config
spread across multiple files.

[Si-Fi]

Originally posted by wuddih:

.\Steam\config
.\Steam\userdata\config
spread across multiple files.

These are the correct paths, i can confirm.

[rado84]

I think it must be on C: drive because Steam is installed on a different partition than Windows and when I reinstall Windows, Steam and all the games remain intact. However, when I run the client, it's back to English. This means the language setting must be on C: drive.
It seems not only the language setting is there, the startup mode's there too.
Thanks, fauxtronic.

[Axle]

Originally posted by wuddih:

.\Steam\config
.\Steam\userdata\config
spread across multiple files.

Just wanted to say thanks, this was very helpful for me.

[dough]

Originally posted by ⚜ Egi:

You cant do that

If you don't know what you're talking about, don't comment.

[◤⭐Vicky⭐Ray◢]

Originally posted by dough:

Originally posted by ⚜ Egi:

You cant do that

If you don't know what you're talking about, don't comment.

ROTFLMAO, nicely said.

[wesw2005]

Could someone please post the entire path to the config files? I don't know what the period stands for before \steam.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by wesw2005:

Could someone please post the entire path to the config files? I don't know what the period stands for before \steam.

That's where you've installed Steam.

[Faceit lvl disabled ♿]

TYSM

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

If Steam adds, removes, or changes settings (again), then the method will fail like with Nvidia settings.

[Progger]

Steam\config\config.vdf
userdata\XXXXXXXXX\X\remote\sharedconfig.vdf
\userdata\XXXXXXXXXX\config\localconfig.vdf

[Bill]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.