Where are the Visual Studio settings stored?

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Eminem picture Eminem · Jul 30, 2014 · Viewed 37.5k times · Source

I'm using visual studio 2013. The company I work for has changed domain names (eg from abc.com to ayebecee.com) which obviously means that a new login profile has to be created etc. Now I started up visual studio but all the addons I installed and settings are 'gone'. Basically I need to know where the settings and addons are stored so that I can copy them to my new windows profile.

Answer

marsze picture marsze · Mar 24, 2016

**Update for latest version**

Visual Studio 2015:

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio 2017:

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2017

Also have a look at these folders:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\...
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\...

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