How to completely reset Visual Studio settings?

Question

_{Monday, March 19, 2018 6:44 PM}

I've tweaked lots of settings in my installment of Visual Studio. I've tried reinstalling, repairing and resetting my settings at the Tools->Import Export Settings Visual Studio 2017 and it still has my settings. An example would be the Dark Theme or the capital letters at the top. I guess that my settings haven't been completely overwritten and <g class="gr_ gr_545 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" data-gr-id="545" id="545">reseted</g>. Although, I remember that when I reinstalled Visual Studio and opened it for the 1st time it showed the default Visual Studio settings (white theme, no recent files, everything clean) but after 3 to 4 seconds everything went back as I had before reinstalling Visual Studio (dark theme, recent files list full, etc). Is there any way of actually resetting every setting?

This is how I want my Visual Studio installment to be: https://i.imgur.com/nyfdJOK.png

This is how it actually is: https://i.imgur.com/vD2KQC0.png

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_{Tuesday, March 20, 2018 5:18 AM | 2 votes}

Hi Raigiku,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

According to your description, you want to clear the recent project and restore the color theme, right?

After I execute Reset all settings (click Tools ->Import and Export Settings…), the color theme and the recent project was not affected. Based on my understanding, “Reset all settings” is reset all environment settings of the default collection of settings, maybe the color theme and recent project is not included in the default collection of settings. So, it’s not revert.

For the color theme, please manually to change it.

For the recent project, please click Start->Developer Command Prompt for VS-> type “devenv.exe /Resetuserdata”, clear the data of the user.

And, you could install Clear Recent extension, click File -> Recent Projects and Solutions -> Clear all, clear the recent project.

In addition, if you want to report this issue, you could post the feedback in the following link:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/spaces/8/index.html

Microsoft engineers will evaluate them seriously.

Thanks for your understanding.

Regards,

Judyzh

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_{Tuesday, August 18, 2020 2:02 PM}

helpful answer.