"factory reset" for stata

[Said Jafar]

Hello statalist,

I have made changes to the default settings of Stata with permanent option. Unfortunately, now i dont remember which settings are they. Do you know, is there any way that i can find it out? Or, is there any way that i can return stata to the "factory settings"?

Regards

[Said Jafar]

It seems i found the answer for the second part of my question.

h set defaults

Do you know how can we identify which settings changed?

[William Lisowski]

The output of help query tells us that query (with no arguments) will display the settings of various Stata parameters.

So running the query command before and after set_defaults _all and then comparing the before-and-after displays should allow you to determine what has been changed.

[Said Jafar]

Dear William,

Thanks for your response. I did not want to reset all the settings, so that why was asking. If there is no way to do this, then perhaps this can be added to the stata 15 wishlist as well.

Kind Regards