diff --git a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure.app/configuration/ChocolateyConfiguration.cs b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure.app/configuration/ChocolateyConfiguration.cs
index 5a36efb131..549ac89cb8 100644
--- a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure.app/configuration/ChocolateyConfiguration.cs
+++ b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure.app/configuration/ChocolateyConfiguration.cs
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ namespace chocolatey.infrastructure.app.configuration
     [Serializable]
     public class ChocolateyConfiguration
     {
+        [NonSerialized]
+        private ChocolateyConfiguration _originalConfiguration;
+
         public ChocolateyConfiguration()
         {
             RegularOutput = true;
@@ -58,6 +61,86 @@ public ChocolateyConfiguration()
 #endif
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Creates a backup of the current version of the configuration class.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <exception cref="System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException">One or more objects in the class or child classes are not serializable.</exception>
+        public void start_backup()
+        {
+            // We do this the easy way to ensure that we have a clean copy
+            // of the original configuration file.
+            _originalConfiguration = this.deep_copy();
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Restore the backup that has previously been created to the initial
+        /// state, without making the class reference types the same to prevent
+        /// the initial configuration class being updated at the same time if a
+        /// value changes.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="removeBackup">Whether a backup that was previously made should be removed after resetting the configuration.</param>
+        /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">No backup has been created before trying to reset the current configuration, and removal of the backup was not requested.</exception>
+        /// <remarks>
+        /// This call may make quite a lot of allocations on the Gen0 heap, as such
+        /// it is best to keep the calls to this method at a minimum.
+        /// </remarks>
+        public void reset_config(bool removeBackup = false)
+        {
+            if (_originalConfiguration == null)
+            {
+                if (removeBackup)
+                {
+                    // If we will also be removing the backup, we do not care if it is already
+                    // null or not, as that is the intended state when this method returns.
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                throw new InvalidOperationException("No backup has been created before trying to reset the current configuration, and removal of the backup was not requested.");
+            }
+
+            var t = this.GetType();
+
+            foreach (var property in t.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance))
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    var originalValue = property.GetValue(_originalConfiguration, new object[0]);
+
+                    if (removeBackup || property.DeclaringType.IsPrimitive || property.DeclaringType.IsValueType || property.DeclaringType == typeof(string))
+                    {
+                        // If the property is a primitive, a value type or a string, then a copy of the value
+                        // will be created by the .NET Runtime automatically, and we do not need to create a deep clone of the value.
+                        // Additionally, if we will be removing the backup there is no need to create a deep copy
+                        // for any reference types, as such we also set the reference itself so it is not needed
+                        // to allocate more memory.
+                        property.SetValue(this, originalValue, new object[0]);
+                    }
+                    else if (originalValue != null)
+                    {
+                        // We need to do a deep copy of the value so it won't copy the reference itself,
+                        // but rather the actual values we are interested in.
+                        property.SetValue(this, originalValue.deep_copy(), new object[0]);
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        property.SetValue(this, null, new object[0]);
+                    }
+                }
+                catch (Exception ex)
+                {
+                    throw new ApplicationException("Unable to restore the value for the property '{0}'.".format_with(property.Name), ex);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (removeBackup)
+            {
+                // It is enough to set the original configuration to null to
+                // allow GC to clean it up the next time it runs on the stored Generation
+                // Heap Table.
+                _originalConfiguration = null;
+            }
+        }
+
         // overrides
         public override string ToString()
         {
@@ -237,6 +320,7 @@ private void append_output(StringBuilder propertyValues, string append)
 
         [Obsolete("Side by Side installation is deprecated, and is pending removal in v2.0.0")]
         public bool AllowMultipleVersions { get; set; }
+
         public bool AllowDowngrade { get; set; }
         public bool ForceDependencies { get; set; }
         public string DownloadChecksum { get; set; }