{"id":2359,"date":"2018-02-01T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T10:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2359"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:39:05","slug":"how-to-reset-the-powerconnect-preferences","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/knowledge-base\/how-to-reset-the-powerconnect-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"How to reset the PowerConnect preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Close all PowerConnect projects<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>My Documents &gt; PowerConnect<\/strong>. Depending on your operating system, the name &#8216;<strong>My Documents<\/strong>&#8216; can be &#8216;<strong>Documents<\/strong>&#8216;.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10846\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences3.png 959w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences3-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences3-768x230.png 768w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences3-50x15.png 50w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences3-60x18.png 60w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences3-35x10.png 35w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Change the name of the folder &#8216;PowerConnect&#8217; to something else, &#8216;PowerConnect2&#8217; for example.<\/li>\n<li>Restart PowerConnect. He has to ask you the language. If not, try the solution in <a href=\"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/knowledge-base\/how-to-relocate-the-preferences\/\">this <\/a>link.<\/li>\n<li>You may delete the folder &#8216;PowerConnect2&#8217; from your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About the Preferences<\/h3>\n<p>\u2018<strong>Preferences\u2019 <\/strong>are settings that are user dependant. The user can choose what suits her\/him best, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Configuration-related settings such as the background color, the color of a point load, whether the supports should be shown, \u2026<\/li>\n<li>Units and decimals,<\/li>\n<li>The language<\/li>\n<li>\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the first startup of PowerConnect, PowerConnect takes the default values (stored in the Program Files). When you work with PowerConnect, you will customize these settings along the way. These changes are stored in a set of files in the folder &#8216;PowerConnect&#8217; in &#8216;My Documents&#8217;. Each version gets its folder.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10844\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences.png 959w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences-50x18.png 50w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences-60x22.png 60w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences-35x13.png 35w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The content of this directory is as follows:<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10845\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences2.png 959w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences2-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences2-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences2-50x18.png 50w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences2-60x22.png 60w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PowerconnectPreferences2-35x13.png 35w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At every start and shut off of PowerConnect these files are called \/ completed. However, sometimes something goes wrong in these files causing PowerConnect not to work properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close all PowerConnect projects Go to My Documents &gt; PowerConnect. Depending on your operating system, the name &#8216;My Documents&#8216; can be &#8216;Documents&#8216;. Change the name of the folder &#8216;PowerConnect&#8217; to something else, &#8216;PowerConnect2&#8217; for example. Restart PowerConnect. He has to ask you the language. If not, try the solution in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[71],"ht-kb-tag":[1348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30888,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2359\/revisions\/30888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}