Patent ID: 7296273

Claim:
A computer program product for resetting a first application or application instance, said program product comprising: a computer readable medium; first program instructions, responsive to a request to reset said first application or application instance, for identifying objects associated with said first application or application instance; second program instructions, responsive to the request to reset said first application or application instance, for determining one or more of said objects associated with said first application or application instance which were defined by a user of said first application or application instance and determining one or more of said objects associated with said first application or application instance which were automatically created by a computer system including said first application or application instance; and third program instructions, responsive to the request to reset said first application or application instance, for writing a script program to command said first application or application instance to delete said one or more objects, associated with said first application or application instance, which were created by said user of said first application or application instance; and wherein said computer program product does not, in response to said request to reset said first application or application instance, command deletion of said one or more objects, associated with said first application or application instance, which were automatically created by said computer system, such that said one or more objects, associated with said first application or application instance, which were automatically created by said computer system are not deleted in response to said request to reset said first application or application instance; and said first, second and third program instructions are recorded on said medium.