Something happened today and my project and item templates are no longer showing up. When I start the Visual Studio IDE I get the following message:
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The automatically saved settings file '\\Settings\CurrentSettings-2007-03-19.vssettings' is not available for write. You can change this file on the 'Import and Export Settings' Tools Options page.
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OK
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If I use the Import and Export Settings to reset the environment it Visual Studio stops responding and then the dialog for resetting the settings goes away with nothing being reset.
After digging around a bit I found you can also reset the Visual Studio IDE through the command line:
"%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /resetuserdata
Make sure you don't have Visual Studio open and use the Task Manager to monitor the devenv.exe process until it is done.
After doing this everything was restored and worked fine. I did loose some custom keybindings so you will have to set those up again.