Switching Visual Studio user – Visual Studio Premium

There are two workable options I now use (in order):

As of Visual Studio 2013 Release 4

• Ensure you login correctly using the current user ID it expects first.
• Then logout from the Account Settings option on the account drop-down menu (top right, usually showing your name)
• Now login again using the other account

It appears VS simply does not like to login to a different account while you are already logged in. Just make it happy first 🙂

Fallback option: You need to run devenv /resetuserdata at the command prompt.

To run the “switch user operation”:

• Close all instances of VS2013 (Check Task Manager to make sure devenv.exe is not running).
• Open a Developer Command Prompt for VS2013.
• Type devenv /resetuserdata and wait for it to complete,.
• Restart VS2013 and follow the usual “sign in” steps (with the desired account).

This process clears the same registry keys (and a few more) suggested by other solutions.