1. A method of managing settings of properties of an image forming device, the method comprising: receiving a first selection of properties from a user to create a set of properties of the image forming device; assigning a name of a user setting group to represent the set of properties and storing the user setting group having the set of properties with the assigned name; receiving a second selection of properties from the user; comparing the second selection of properties to the set of properties of the stored user setting group having the assigned name; and associating the assigned name of the stored user setting group with a user setting group having the second selection of properties when the set of properties is identical to the second selection of properties.