st: Can we port Stata windowing and graphics preferences between computers?

[Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Is there any way that Stata users can save windowing, font and graphics 
preferences in such a way as to be portable between different computers? 
(Or at least between different computers sharing the same operating 
environment?)

I ask because my hard disk failed without warning last Friday. 
Fortunately, I managed to re-install my Stata (Version 11, release date 
09 March 2010, under Windows XP, with over 60 user-defined packages) on 
a temporary PC without much trouble, and do not expect to have much 
trouble porting everything back to my old PC when a new hard drive is 
installed. However, it would be even better if I could save my 
preferences to a server and load them again, without any manual tweaking.

I like the new standard preference sets for presentations, shipped with 
Stata 11, which are pre-optimized with large fonts for visibility to 
people with poor eyesight at the back of the hall. However, ideally, I 
would like also to be able to define an equally automatic preference 
set, with small fonts, for my own daily use, and not to have to 
reconstruct it when I move to a new PC.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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