Power Tools performance for Visual Studio is disabled and won't enable
I had the Productivity Tools (PPT) installed on Visual Studio 2012 and everything was fine. Suddenly it stopped working and I noticed that it was disabled under Extensions.
I can't enable it (the Enable button is grayed out), only uninstall it, but even uninstalling and reinstalling it failed.
I also installed VS 2013 community (new full free version) and installed PPT on it and the situation is exactly the same.
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After examining this issue inside out (and vice versa), I finally figured out the cause of the mess described here in the question (at least for my specific case):
It looks like I had multiple versions of Visual Studio installed on my PC, which is obviously a very unhealthy situation. In my case, the only symptom of such a sick variety that I noticed was the expansion problem. And the good thing that happened ...
I just uninstalled ALL the versions I installed on my PC and only re-installed the version (one of them) that I wanted to continue with (in my case, the VS2013 community).
I installed all the required extensions again, including of course the Powerivity Tools, and everything works fine.
Of course, rebooting the system between installations doesn't hurt ... I'm talking about Windows PCs, after all .; -)
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