I've looked around online to try to find a way to delete the history of VS 2010's Find/Replace feature, but all I've gotten are answers only valid for previous versions (VS 05, VS 08, etc.). Does anyone know how clear it for the 2010 version? Thanks!
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For Visual Studio 2017:
http://www.visualstudioextensibility.com/2017/07/15/about-the-new-privateregistry-bin-file-of-visual-studio-2017/ https://github.com/Microsoft/VSProjectSystem/blob/master/doc/overview/examine_registry.md
Extract:
- Close Visual Studio
- Start Regedit.exe
- Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE node
- From the main menu, select File -> Load Hive... and select the private registry file. That file is stored in the Local App Data %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[config]\privateregistry.bin where [config] corresponds to the configuration hive you would like to browse
- It will prompt for a name - that represents the name that will be displayed under (e.g. IsolatedHive)
- Now you should be able to browse the registry under the hive you created Now search for the key "Find" and delete whatever you need to delete.
- Before launching Visual Studio, you need to unload it: From the main menu File -> Unload Hive before attempting to run VS (otherwise regedit keeps the file locked, and Visual Studio will fail to launch)
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