How can I switch my signed in user in Visual Studio 2013

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A new feature of Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to sign in with a Microsoft Account and have your settings be persisted across all of your instances of Visual Studio  amongst other things   When I installed Visual Studio 2013 Preview I signed in with one of several Microsoft Accounts I hold   I ve now installed the RTM version of Visual Studio 2013  after uninstalling the Preview version  and that has kept my previous user sign in credentials   I would now like to change these sign in credentials to be a different Microsoft Account but every time I attempt to sign in with the new details I receive a message similar to the following     We were unable to establish the connection because it is configured for user olduser old com but you attempted to connect using user newuser new com  To connect as a different user perform a switch user operation  To connect with the configured identity just attempt the last operation again    The problem is I can t find any documentation anywhere on how to perform a  switch user operation     Maybe I m just not looking hard enough but hopefully someone here can help me out

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Execute VSWinExpress  resetuserdata  located in C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 12 0  to reset the user credentials for Visual Studio 2013 Express

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There is a link  Licence with another account    before trying to Sign in   Click and sign in  then close the Sign In Window   Ultimate 2013

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There is a comment about this under this answer  but I think it s important to list it here  If you want to preserve your settings  export them first because they will be lost   From MSDN forums - since I had to hunt around far too much to find the solution to this    Close Visual Studio Start the Developer Command prompt installed with Visual Studio as an administrator  type  devenv  resetuserdata    wdexpress  resetuserdata  for Express SKUs  Start Visual Studio Normally    Worked for me

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I resolved this problem by deleting the registry key under  hkey current user software Microsoft VSCommon 12 0 clientservices tokenstorage visualstudio ideuser

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For VS 2013  community edition  you have to delete the registry keys found under  hkey current user software Microsoft VSCommon 12 0 clientservices tokenstorge visualstudio ideuser

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Derek s answer above didn t work for me  I am using VS 2013 Ultimate and after signing out of Visual Studio  when i tried to sign in as another user  it gave error   Then when connecting to the Team Project i saw the option to switch user  which is what i wanted all along

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Thanks   only one that fixed mine was the command prompt  Devenv is located under VisualStudio 12 0 Directory under common7 IDE if it helps

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what worked for me was to go to Team explorer in VS2013 and under  connect  you ll see a link saying  select team projects   click this and a window opens asking you to select the project but in the bottom left corner of this window there is a  switch user  link  just click this and use your new id  simple

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I was also able to fix this by signing in putting my product key in and then signing out and then logging in under my new login

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If the Command prompt don t work for you  try logging in with your account that is working then log out and then try again with your other account

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I have Visual Studio 2013 Express   I had to delete the registry key under    hkey current user software Microsoft VSCommon 12  clientservices tokenstorge VWDExpress ideuser

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Start Visual Studio Tools - gt  Import and Export Settings - gt  Export selected environment settings You need to be really quick to navigate the menu before Licensing pop-up appears   this step is optional  worst case scenario you would have to restore all the settings manually   Once in  Import and Export Settings  dialogue you can relax   Exit Visual Studio   From the command prompt run  devenv  resetuserdata for the particular Visual Studio version   Safest way is to right-click on the shortcut - gt  Properties - gt  Shortcut - gt  Target - gt  copy  Final command should look something like    C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio NN N Common7 IDE devenv exe   resetuserdata   Go through log-in and initial settings   Tools - gt  Import and Export Settings - gt  Import selected environment settings to restore your original settings   This worked when the error      We were unable to establish the connection because it is configured   for user email address but you attempted to connect using user   email address  To connect as a different user perform a switch user   operation  To connect with the configured identity just attempt the   last operation again       has both instances of email address identical

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None of the above worked for me - the following did   devenv  ResetSettings  The nice thing about this option was it didn t wipe out all of my Visual Studio configuration  as  ResetUserData does

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You don t need to reset all your user data to switch users  Try clicking on your name in the upper right corner then click on  Account settings   There you will get an option to sign out of the IDE  Once signed out you can sign back in as another Microsoft account

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I faced this issue Many time from different scenarios   one of them when I tryed Connecting to team foundation server for different Logged User    so the solution is easy Just Click Switch User  hope this help you

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I was able to fix this by  1  Sign in as the old user  2  Sign out  3  Sign in as new user   In my case  it appears that it wanted to verify my license on the old account first  before it would let me switch to a new one

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For Visual Studio 2019 it wasn t working by signing out  signing in  etc  as mention in other solutions  What simply worked was performing the operation from new branches window section  i e  1  Click on   2  It opens up the branches section as below  Then right click on desired branch and perform the operation which wasn t working earlier   for me  it was PUSH that wasn t throwing this error    in VS 2019 new Git interface  I usually push pull fetch from the small arrows as shown in first screenshot  But sometime they throw error  mentioned in question  and do not allow pushing pulling  What then what worked was the solution I mentioned above  May be it s a bug or something  but this solution saves you from resetting user data  and mess of signing out in from multiple accounts  etc

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