How do I truly reset every setting in Visual Studio 2012

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I am trying to reset every single setting inside Visual Studio as I have completely lost all IntelliSense  I tried the Tools -  Import Export settings -  Reset  but that is not clearing all the settings  I know it is not since the color theme was not reset  and I still do not have IntelliSense  Short of uninstalling and deleting every trace of the program including the registry  is there another way to reset every single setting to the factory default

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Executing the command  Devenv exe  ResetSettings like    C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 14 0 Common7 IDE devenv exe  ResetSettings   resolved my issue  D  For more  https   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms241273 aspx

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Visual Studio has multiple flags to reset various settings     ResetUserData -  AFAICT  Removes all user settings and makes you set them again   This will get you the initial prompt for settings again  clear your recent project history  etc   ResetSettings - Restores the IDE s default settings  optionally resets to the specified VSSettings file   ResetSkipPkgs - Clears all SkipLoading tags added to VSPackages   ResetAddin - Removes commands and command UI associated with the specified Add-in    The last three show up when running devenv exe      The first one seems to be undocumented unsupported the big hammer   From here      Disclaimer  you will lose all your environment settings and customizations if you use this switch  It is for this reason that this switch is not officially supported and Microsoft does not advertise this switch to the public  you won t see this switch if you type devenv exe    in the command prompt   You should only use this switch as the last resort if you are experiencing an environment problem  and make sure you back up your environment settings by exporting them before using this switch

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1  Run Visual Studio Installer  2  Click More on your Installed version and select Repair  3  Restart  Worked on Visual Studio 2017 Community

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Just repair Visual Studio itself from the control panel and that should do the trick

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Click on Tools menu   Import and Export Settings   Reset all settings   Next    No  just reset settings  overwriting all current settings    Next   Finish

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To reset your settings   On the Tools menu  click Import and Export Settings  On the Welcome to the Import and Export Settings Wizard page  click Reset all settings and then click Next  If you want to delete your current settings combination  choose No  just reset settings  overwriting all current settings  and then click Next  Select the programming language s  you want to reset the setting for     Click Finish   The Reset Complete page alerts you to any problems encountered during the reset

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How to hard reset Visual Studio instance When developing extensions sometimes you just mess up  others someone else does  If you start getting errors loading even the most mundane extensions  these are the instructions to hard reset your instance  Close Visual Studio  if you haven   t already   Open the registry editor  regedit exe  Delete the HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VisualStudio  version  Delete the HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VisualStudio  version  Config Delete the  LOCALAPPDATA  Microsoft VisualStudio  version  directory   Enjoy your brand new Visual Studio instance   Use  version  10 0 for Visual Studio 2010 Use  version  11 0 for Visual Studio 2012 Use  version  12 0 for Visual Studio 2013  If on the other side you want to reset the experimental hive you can do the same to with the     version Exp    ones  Happy coding   Source  http   www corvalius com site hacks how-to-hard-reset-visual-studio-instance

[visual-studio-2012] How do I truly reset every setting in Visual Studio 2012?

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