Where are the Visual Studio settings stored?

Question

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 1

Try copying the files over from the old profile in the following locations to your new username's profile:

From:
    C:\Users\[OldUSERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio
To:    
    C:\Users\[NewUSERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio

From:
    C:\Users\[OldUSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio
To:
    C:\Users\[NewUSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio

Answer 2

**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\...

Answer 3

Make an Export of your Visual Studio Settings... Tools -> Import And Export Settings Afterwards you can import it to your VS where you want have this settings.