Since I’m primarily a Firefox user you’ll see that I don’t have many items in my search list, but you might have a lot more than I do.
Manual Registry Backup Method
If you are comfortable using the registry, you can just open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box and then navigate down to the following key:
Right-click on the SearchScopes key and choose to Export. Give the file a name and save it somewhere useful. To restore this list on another computer you should only have to double-click it.
Command Line Method
You can use the reg.exe method on the command line to backup this key. You can either paste this command into a command prompt or save it into a batch file.
And thus ends the mystery of backing up search providers.
