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EvilBeer
EvilBeer

Reputation: 2084

Visual Studio 2013 randomly changes the theme on its own

I seem to be having a terribly annoying issue with Visual Studio 2013. I am using the "default" Dark theme on my environment, but every few minutes or so it changes its theme to another, which is not even a theme I have on my machine.

Has anyone else experienced this? How does one solve it?

PS.: Logged in on a shared, corporate account

Upvotes: 20

Views: 4814

Answers (3)

EvilBeer
EvilBeer

Reputation: 2084

Turns out the issue was the fact that Synchronized Settings were enabled, therefore it was trying to sync theme and other settings across different machines.

Solution: In VS13, go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Synchronized Settings and then uncheck the "Enabled synchronization" box.

Upvotes: 31

demoncodemonkey
demoncodemonkey

Reputation: 11957

I've never seen this happen. The only thing I can think is that another user is also using the same account, but with a different theme, causing your shared settings to be updated, and causing your theme to change.

And probably if you keep changing the theme back, I bet your colleague will be having the same problem as you :)

Upvotes: 1

Slate
Slate

Reputation: 3694

Visual Studio will change its theme to default if your computer is struggling to keep up with the graphical requirements.

You can change this by unchecking Options > Environment > General > "Automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance".

Upvotes: 8

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