How to reset settings in Visual Studio Code

Question

It s a simple thing and I was pretty sure it s well described  but surprisingly it is not so obvious   Here I ve found a detailed description of settings file  As it states it should be setting json file located  APPDATA  Code User settings json  but in my case it s not there   Can someone give me some help with restoring default settings in Visual Studio Code  I ve hidden menu bar by accident and I can t find no way to show it back

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Go to File -  preferences -  settings    On the right panel you will see all customized user settings so you can remove the ones you want to reset  On doing so the default settings mentioned in left pane will become active instantly

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The best easiest way I found to reset settings   Open Settings page  Ctrl Shift P      Go onto your desire setting section to reset  click on icon and then Reset Setting

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This may be overkill  but it seemed to work for me     bin sh  rm -rfv  quot  HOME  vscode quot  rm -rfv  quot  HOME Library Application Support Code quot  rm -rfv  quot  HOME Library Caches com microsoft VSCode quot  rm -rfv  quot  HOME Library Saved Application State com microsoft VSCode savedState quot   After I ran that  and restarted VSC  it showed the the  quot Welcome quot  screen  which I took to mean that it was starting from scratch

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On Linux environment delete the folder     config Code  to reset Visual Studio Code Settings

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If you want to reset everything  go to  userprofile  AppData Roaming Code and delete the whole folder after you uninstall the VS code  then install it again   Also in  userprofile   vscode delete extensions folder in case you want to delete all extensions

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Steps to reset on Windows    Press  Windows-Key  R   and enter  APPDATA  Code User    And delete  setting json  at this location            Press  Windows-Key  R   and enter  USERPROFILE  vscode extensions    And delete all the extensions there    EDIT  After two vote downs added images to make it more clear

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Heads up  if clearing the settings doesn t fix your issue you may need to uninstall the extensions as well

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You can get your menu back by pressing holding alt  you can then toggle the menu back on via the View menu   As for your settings  you can open your user settings through the command palette    Press F1 Type user settings Press enter Click the  sheet  icon to open the settings json file      From there you can delete the file s contents and save to reset your settings     For a more manual route  the settings files are located in the following locations    Windows  APPDATA  Code User settings json macOS  HOME Library Application Support Code User settings json Linux  HOME  config Code User settings json   Extensions are located in the following locations    Windows  USERPROFILE   vscode extensions macOS    vscode extensions Linux    vscode extensions

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To reset the default settings I m not sure  but if you re just trying to get a menu bar back then try right clicking on the anywhere on the toolbar area and clicking the toolbar you need   EDIT  Figured out how to reset the settings Click on the tools button on the top  click  Import and Export Settings  and then click  Reset All Settings   Then go through the wizard from there

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If you want to start afresh  deleting the settings json file from your user s profile will do the trick   But if you don t want to reset everything  it is still possible through settings menu     You can search for the setting that you want to revert back using search box   You will see some settings with the left blue line  it means you ve modified that one     If you take your cursor to that setting  a gear button will appear  You can click this to restore that setting     You can also use the drop-down below that setting and change it to default

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You can reset both the user and workspace settings in VS Code as shown in the following images

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