How can one extract VS2017 settings from a hard drive of an old OS installation?

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Hi. I rebuilt my box a few days ago. Before I did, I copied my entire C: drive to my backup server. Blew away Windows, reinstalled everything. Fired up VS2017 and realized my dumb a* never exported preferences. *siiiiigh*

How can I get my prefs back from the old backup? I tried renaming c:\users\myusername\appdata\roaming\microsoft\visualstudio to visualstudio.original then copying that path from backup but it had no effect. I then, while searching for .vssettings files in hopes I had a reasonably recent backup, noticed that on the old HDD is a bunch of settings files in C:\Apps\VS2017\Common7\IDE\Profiles. So I copied all that over, no dice.

I see there is an HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Visual Studio key so I went to the old drive backup to load the ntuser.dat hive from c:\users\myusername but there is no ntuser.dat; in retrospect, I realize now that it couldn't have copied it as I was logged in as myself (FACEPALM!!)

So am I hosed? Are they in the registry?

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