Put my PC back as it was
Uninstalling AngAinOne does not put Windows settings back to their original state: what you had applied stays in place. Uninstalling does, on the other hand, keep every backup — nothing is lost, and reinstalling the app finds them again automatically.
Where the backups are
C:\ProgramData\AngAinOne—optim-snapshots(the state from before each tweak),powerplans(power plans exported as.pow),dlss-backups(the original DLSS DLLs of your games),driver-backup(exported GPU driver packages).%LocalAppData%\AngATV\AngAinOne—per_game_drsandgame_registry_snapshots(original 3D settings and registry keys, per game),nvidia_defaults_backup.json(DRS settings from before any change),game-config-originals.json(original in-game configuration),dlss_swaps.json,amd_registry_origin.jsonandintel_registry_origin.json.%AppData%\AngAinOne—Snapshots(debloat, tweak and preset snapshots).- Registry —
HKLM\SOFTWARE\AngAinOneandHKCU\Software\AngAinOne:StartupBackup,UsbBackup,DnsBackup,DnsApplied,OptimMarkers.
How to roll back
No button undoes everything: several pages restore item by item, and the power plans page deletes instead of restoring (see below). Reinstall AngAinOne, then, depending on what you had applied:
- Tweaks — the "Restore catalog tweaks" button. It only covers the tweaks shown on that page.
- Appearance — three "Restore Windows defaults" buttons, one per section: File Explorer, Folders in This PC, Taskbar and Start. Each one only touches its own section, and nothing is written before "Apply". The "Interface & behavior" section has no button: turn its switches back one by one.
- USB — no button restores USB. "Turn USB sleep back on" forces sleep on every controller: that is not a rollback. MSI mode and interrupt priority are undone by no button: set them back on each controller’s card (the "MSI mode (latency)" and "Turn off USB sleep" switches — unchecked = sleep allowed — and the "Interrupt priority" list). The values from before are noted in the registry, under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\AngAinOne\UsbBackup: the app never reads them back, use them as a reference. - Startup, Network, DLSS — restoring is done item by item on the page (program, network interface, game): there is no global button.
- GPU drivers — the driver packages exported before a purge are files, in
C:\ProgramData\AngAinOne\driver-backup: reinstall them from that folder, the app does not do it for you.
Power plans: the "Restore" button does not restore yours
On the Power page, "Restore" puts the default Windows plans back — and deletes your custom plans and the manufacturer’s along the way. They are exported as .pow to C:\ProgramData\AngAinOne\powerplans before the operation, but they are not reimported automatically: to get one back, use powercfg /import "path to the .pow" in an administrator terminal.
If you do not want to restore anything, the locations above can be deleted by hand — rolling back will then no longer be possible.