{"id":8212,"date":"2023-07-25T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T03:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T03:15:57","slug":"resetting-visualgdb-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/documentation\/troubleshooting\/resetsettings\/","title":{"rendered":"Resetting VisualGDB Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uninstalling VisualGDB normally preserves the global settings and keeps the packages (e.g. toolchains) you installed, so that you easily switch between different VisualGDB versions.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to reset all VisualGDB settings, you can manually do the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Close all instances of Visual Studio<\/li>\n<li>Delete the <strong>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Sysprogs\\VisualGDB<\/strong> registry key (we recommend saving it to a <strong>.reg<\/strong> file beforehand).<\/li>\n<li>Delete the <strong>%LOCALAPPDATA%\\VisualGDB<\/strong> directory (we recommend renaming it so that you can revert it later).<\/li>\n<li>If you have installed any toolchains, you can simply delete their directories and optionally remove the <strong>Software\\Sysprogs\\GNUToolchains <\/strong>registry key (<strong>HKEY_CURRENT_USER<\/strong> or <strong>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you used VisualGDB to install Arduino packages, you can try removing the following directories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>C:\\Users\\&lt;user&gt;\\Documents\\ArduinoData<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>C:\\Users\\&lt;user&gt;\\AppData\\Local\\Arduino&lt;version&gt;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are using a custom Python installation, some versions of <strong>mbed<\/strong>, <strong>ESP-IDF<\/strong> or other frameworks could install Python packages in it. If you are encountering strange Python errors, consider deleting your Python installation, and installing it from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uninstalling VisualGDB normally preserves the global settings and keeps the packages (e.g. toolchains) you installed, so that you easily switch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}