Visual Studio 2013 and settings file errors during launch

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I recently updated Visual Studio 2013 onto one of my development machines, and after installing the product, I naturally started writing some code with it. Since I nowadays don't very often shut down the computer (I instead put it into sleep mode), Visual Studio is kept on for extended periods of time.

This happened from the very first launch, and thus when Windows automatic updates had rebooted the machine unbeknownst to me, I fired up Visual Studio 2013 again. The result was an error message like this:

Microsoft Visual Studio
The automatically saved settings file 'F:\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\
Settings\CurrentSettings.vssettings' cannot be found. You can change
this file on the 'Import and Export Settings' Tools Options page. The
IDE will use your most recent settings for this session.

OK   

Luckily, this problem is easy to fix: Visual Studio 2013 saves the settings to a file called "CurrentSettings.vssettings'" (shown above), which is written when Visual Studio is closed cleanly. If no clean exit happens (as with my case, immediately after installing the product), you might get the above error message.

Hope this helps!