Hello Everyone,

If you ever have to reinstall windows because you get a new PC.
And you can't use a system image or clone your drive because of new hardware, drivers..

Follow my instructions below & you will not have to add your Kontakt libraries,
or organise them again in the order you like.

I've spent a lot of time organising my libraries into categories,
e.g. Strings, Brass, Woodwinds.. So when I get a new PC, I don't to have organise them all again.

If any of you have all your libraries organised the way you like.
Do the following to save yourself a tedious time in the future -

Backup -

.Run regedit.exe go to -
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE folder, right click the Native Instruments folder
Click Export, type a file name of your choice & save the reg key to the desktop

.Run regedit.exe go to -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE folder, right click the Native Instruments folder
Click Export, type a file name of your choice & save the reg key to the desktop

.Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Native Instruments folder
Then back up the Service Centre folder, along with the
2 reg keys from the desktop, to an external drive.

Restore -

When you've installed windows on your new PC, do the following -

.Install Kontakt

.Run regedit.exe go to -
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE folder, right click the Native Instruments folder
Then click Delete, Yes (That's if this Native Instruments folder exists)
.Run regedit.exe go to -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE folder, right click the Native Instruments folder
Then click Delete, Yes (That's if this Native Instruments folder exists)

.Double click the 2 reg keys you have backed up on your external drive,
& import them by clicking Yes, Yes

.Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Native Instruments folder
& delete the Service Centre folder (if there is one)
Then replace it with the one you have backed up on your external drive.

Now when you connect your external drive/drives & load kontakt, all your libraries
will automatically appear & will be organized the way the were on your old PC

Note -

Your external drive/drives letters that your libraries are on,
have to remain the same letters they were when you were on your old PC.
Otherwise your libraries will not show in Kontakt..

Also to be safe, make sure the Kontakt install directory & vst directory, is the same as it was on your old PC.
& make sure your PC user name is the same as it was on your old PC as well.

Do the Backup - regularly..
I do one whenever I fill an external SSD

 

Last edited: May 14, 2025

I know this works as I done it late last year. I was using the CodeFN42 - Kontakt LibOrganizer
and accidently saved the order of my libraries in alphabetical order

So first I created a new system image, then I restored my computer from a week old system image.
I then did the backup steps I put above, & restored my computer from the new system image.
Then I did the restore steps I put above, minus installing Kontakt. And all my libraries were back in the order I organized them.

I could have just restored my computer from the week old system image, & left it at that.
But I created the new system Image, then restored from the week old system image,
backed up reg keys.. & restored back to the new system image, deleted reg keys & the imported backed up reg keys..
as I made a lot of changes to my system within a week.

 

Last edited: May 13, 2025

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Last edited: May 14, 2025

I feel bad I didn't check this out earlier. Good tip

 

I wonder if you have installed your libs on a nwe computer, but have not installed one case you hardly ever use it..but then you wanna load a project (lets say cubase) and somehow you did use an instrument from a libary you dont have anymore, how to ignore that and make kontakt keep loading the OTHER kontak instrumnets that it has not loaded yet? So far it seems that you either end up with half your libraries loaded (the ones it loaded before the one it could not find cause you dont have it anymore) or you have to trick it into believing it does have that library.

btw I use kontakt Portable and the oly solution i can thnik of is to download hte libarry again, then save hte NICNT file and just delete the other sutff, so kontakt thinks it has that library when in fact it just has that NICNT file.
While does kontakt not have have ' skip this instrument' option AT ALL. EIther it needs to have every library or you end up with it not being able to load the other libraries when you have a missing one.

I really makes no sense at all