How to backup Nvidia Control Panel preferences

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Every now and then I have to perform a fresh reinstallation of Nvidia drivers. This always results in losing all configuration settings.
According to this post Control Panel preferences are stored in nvdrsdb0.bin and nvdrsdb1.bin files in ~/ProgramData/NVIDIA Corporation/Drs, but I don't know what is stored in the files and whether overwriting after driver installation is safe. I only want to export user configuration settings and nothing else.

Nvidia Control Panel screenshot

Best Answer

Nvidia Inspector can export and import Nvidia profile settings. Start "profile inspector" by clicking the icon on the right side, on the middle:

Nvidia Inspector

Select "export user defined profiles" (import option is next on the right), "export all customized profiles" option exports per-program settings:

profile inspector

Close Nvidia Control Panel before importing, if running.

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