Well how often do you really need to do that, ive so far deleted the prefs only 4 times in my life. and ive been using maya form 1998
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i created a little application that would allow you to delete the maya preferences and then let you open maya up.
Well sure, but i mean if a person cant script even thsi much themselves thy are kind of lost cases anyway. I mean all you need is to put following in a text file and name it appropriately(windows all other sytems are equally trivial):
move %homedrive%%homepath%\Documents\Maya\mayaversion\prefs %homedrive%%homepath%\Documents\Maya\mayaversion\prefs.bak
Then shortcut it somewhere.
Besides the likelihood of a person corrupting the prefs increases with their scripting skill so its not very likely youd see people who cant do this needing to reset prefs very often. (and if they find going into disk system and changing it is difficult they REALLY need the practice anyway)
likewise you could just make a mel script to do this then it would be platform independent.
Its not like you should be resetting your prefs every day or month, if you do theres something severily worng with your system. So its more of a diisfavor to do it easier than it allready is.