Visual Studio 2010 loses user preferences when run side by side

Question

For some time now I have been registering annoying behavior in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 under Windows Vista. Sometimes my user settings are lost at startup. This happens most of the time when I opened the same solution in parallel in two VS instances and after closing both parameters are lost the next time VS starts. I do not change the settings while running two VS.

Has anyone experienced the same behavior?

In the course, I saved my settings, but especially short keyboard shortcuts cannot be completely restored, because I overwritten some global short shortcuts by default. So what bothers me the most. ([EDIT] This is an independent issue, see Microsoft Connect .

Is there a way to get VS not to kill my settings at startup?

Answer 1

VS overwrites user settings when closing. If you want to avoid such problems, you must close the instance in which you made the changes last.