

Adobe makes it a little more difficult than that. This is not very intuitive, since you may expect there to be a button to reset your preferences, in the actual preferences menu. While After Effects is starting up, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS), and your preferences will be reset. Resetting preferences is easy, but will require good timing. But there are so many different settings to adjust, that setting everything back to normal may just be the easiest. If something has gone wrong, the After Effects preferences is one of the first places you can look for issues. This will most likely be for troubleshooting. For a variety of reasons, you may find yourself in need of resetting these preferences back to the original. So you’ve adjusted all of your preferences to be exactly what you need.
