Visual Studio debugging painfully slow when loading symbols

Question

I have an issue which is practically similar to Visual Studio debugging/loading very slow but I haven\'t managed to find a solution to such a problem.

I have tried all w

Answer 1

I tried all solutions and nothing seemed to work. I cracked open my symbol settings TOOLS > Options > Debugging > Symbols and found the Cache Symbols in this directory set to another user's directory e.g. C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache

I then cleared the setting string by making it empty, and removed any other pdb locations configured. Then press OK.

Then I kicked off a build and allowed VS to resolve those symbols (20 sec). I then stopped and restarted, and launched without loading symbols.

I'm assuming somewhere down the line I imported settings from another user.