How to fully reset all Visual Studio settings to factory defaults?
There are 2 switches that you can try to restore the settings to default from the command line:
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/ResetSettings: Restores Visual Studio default settings -
/ResetUserData: not documented, but it resets the user data to the default values.
devenv.exe /ResetSettings
devenv.exe /ResetUserData
You can try the /SafeMode switch which:
Starts Visual Studio in safe mode. This switch loads only the default environment, the default services, and the shipped versions of third-party packages.
devenv.exe /SafeMode
Source: Devenv command-line switches