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Th3MoL3
Th3MoL3

Reputation: 31

Delete visual studio 2019 extension settings

Don't suppose anyone knows how to find and delete settings for an extension in VS 2019. I uninstalled one and reinstalled and it was already populated with its previous settings. Its seems surprisingly difficult to pinpoint for some reason.

Just to add to this, I have found out that extensions utilise an options page. Now just to work out where Visual Studio stores all the data entered in an options page.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 878

Answers (1)

Th3MoL3
Th3MoL3

Reputation: 31

UPDATE With help from Sergey I have located the settings. They are present in %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\"Current version"\privateregistry.bin

To access the keys you need to load the file in regedit(as admin). Then click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and File -> Load Hive and navigate to the bin file and type the name of the Key you want it to load as e.g "VSSettings". Then you can navigate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\"VSSettings" to find settings.

Don't forgot to unload HIVE after as you won't be able to open Visual studio without unloading it first.

Upvotes: 2

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