I've mucked up my Visual Studio settings

Question

I have somehow managed to change something in my Visual Studio settings.

I was trying to make some changes to the Debugger so that a project I was working on would allow Edit and Continue, and now every time I launch my application VS downloads all of the DLLs for the project from ...Microsoft, I guess.

This is really irritating, especially because we are behind an old, slow ISA proxy server. I've been waiting for these files to download long enough that I decided to come here to SO and ask the question. Now, I've asked it and VS is still trying to download more DLLs.

[EDIT] Here's a screenshot of my Tools > Options... Debugging > Symbols page:

Also, whenever I run my projects, I can't mouse over the object to get their values because "the code is optimized." Any idea how to turn that off?

Answer 1

One "if all else fails" way to potentially fix it is to go to

Tools > Import and Export Settings...

There's a "Reset all settings" option.

Now before you do that, you may want to check where your settings are saved. You can find that here:

Tools > Options > Environment > Import and Export Settings

See the "Automatically save my settings to this file" setting. Back up that file somewhere so you don't lose all the settings. After you reset all your settings, you can do a diff on the new setting file with your backed up file, and then you can restore the settings you want.