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When I click on "Compare with Workspace Version" in Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise, using TFS, I get a blank screen with a message at the bottom saying "Running a compare operation in the background. Once the operation has completed, the results will be displayed in the compare tool."

I restarted my machine and also went into the following cache folders and cleared out the contents:

C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\TFSTemp

C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\6.0\Cache

Strangely, when I do a solution-wide search for a term, some of the cached items in that first path still appear in the search results, and the files open even though I deleted them.

I suspect that a slow internet connection is related to the issue, but I can't compare any files now, even with the internet being at tolerable speeds. Is there more cache I can clear to get the compare feature working again?

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I used the option to reset all settings as per the following thread, and compare started working again:

What is this 'Waiting for Background operation' in Visual Studio 2012?

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