# Resetting the configuration of the Windows & Linux Applications

**Issue:** You wish to reset the configuration of the Disconnected Client so you may join a different security realm, or you can subscribe to a different facility, or you wish to purge all local data from you instance of OpenIZ Disconnected Client.

**Applies To:**

* OpenIZ Disconnected Client for Windows
* OpenIZ Disconnected Client for Linux

**Solutions:**

There are three ways to wipe the configuration of the OpenIZ disconnected client.

1. By having the application reset the environment:
   1. Close all running instances of the OpenIZ Disconnected Client
   2. Press **Start**
   3. Navigate to **Open Immunize**
   4. Click "**Reset OpenIZ Disconnected Client"**
   5. Press "**Yes**" when prompted
2. In a command window 1. Open a command prompt window 2. On Linux type the command : *\*\**

   **\~/usr/share/openiz/dc/bin/gtkclient --reset**

   1. On Windows type the command:

      **"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mohawk College\OpenIZ\Disconnected Client\DisconnectedClient.exe --reset"**
3. By deleting the application's configuration directory 1. Close all running instances of the OpenIZ Disconnected Client 2. Open **Windows File Explorer** 3. Navigate to %appdata% 4. Delete the folder **OpenIZDC** 5. Navigate to %localappdata% 6. Delete the folder **OpenIZDC** 7. ![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/santedb/dev-doc/master/.gitbook/assets/kb003-delete.png)


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