Code change:
Testing I started the Troubleshoot issue flow and it took a long time to create my initial profile. All I had was a status bar item which took me a while to discover (I actually thought something else went wrong). I would love to see and editor / web view better guiding me through that process by: listing the steps and adding check marks when done showing me the number of bisects still necessary giving me a final report.
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We should also have a UI to always stop the process (see ) for a situation where this is useful
I now see that there is a notification for each step. This makes it better, so may be a simple thing to do is to show a notificatio with progress when the profile is created instead of a simple status bar item.
Actually, setting up the trouble shooting profile should be fast and instant.
Was not for me :-(
Following notification is shown now !

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text: command: showWindowLogActionId, }, async (progress) => { progress.report({ message: localize('Importing profile', "{0} ({1})...", title, profileTemplate.name) }); <del> const profile = await this.getProfileToImport(profileTemplate, temporaryProfile); if (!profile) { return undefined; } </del> <ins> return this.importAndSwitchWithProgress(profileTemplate, temporaryProfile, extensions, extensionsDisabled, message => progress.report({ message: `${title} (${profileTemplate.name}): ${message}` })); }); } </ins> <del> if (profileTemplate.settings) { progress.report({ message: localize('progress settings', "{0} ({1}): Applying Settings...", title, profileTemplate.name) }); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(SettingsResource).apply(profileTemplate.settings, profile); } if (profileTemplate.keybindings) { progress.report({ message: localize('progress keybindings', "{0} ({1}): Applying Keyboard Shortcuts...", title, profileTemplate.name) }); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(KeybindingsResource).apply(profileTemplate.keybindings, profile); } if (profileTemplate.tasks) { progress.report({ message: localize('progress tasks', "{0} ({1}): Applying Tasks...", title, profileTemplate.name) }); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(TasksResource).apply(profileTemplate.tasks, profile); } if (profileTemplate.snippets) { progress.report({ message: localize('progress snippets', "{0} ({1}): Applying Snippets...", title, profileTemplate.name) }); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(SnippetsResource).apply(profileTemplate.snippets, profile); } if (profileTemplate.globalState) { progress.report({ message: localize('progress global state', "{0} ({1}): Applying State...", title, profileTemplate.name) }); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(GlobalStateResource).apply(profileTemplate.globalState, profile); } if (profileTemplate.extensions && extensions) { progress.report({ message: localize('progress extensions', "{0} ({1}): Applying Extensions...", title, profileTemplate.name) }); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(ExtensionsResource, extensionsDisabled).apply(profileTemplate.extensions, profile); } </del> <ins> private async importAndSwitchWithProgress(profileTemplate: IUserDataProfileTemplate, temporaryProfile: boolean, extensions: boolean, extensionsDisabled: boolean, progress: (message: string) => void): Promise<IUserDataProfile | undefined> { const profile = await this.getProfileToImport(profileTemplate, temporaryProfile); if (!profile) { return undefined; } </ins> <del> progress.report({ message: localize('switching profile', "{0} ({1}): Applying...", title, profileTemplate.name) }); await this.userDataProfileManagementService.switchProfile(profile); return profile; }); </del> <ins> if (profileTemplate.settings) { progress(localize('progress settings', "Applying Settings...")); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(SettingsResource).apply(profileTemplate.settings, profile); } if (profileTemplate.keybindings) { progress(localize('progress keybindings', "{0}ying Keyboard Shortcuts...")); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(KeybindingsResource).apply(profileTemplate.keybindings, profile); } if (profileTemplate.tasks) { progress(localize('progress tasks', "Applying Tasks...")); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(TasksResource).apply(profileTemplate.tasks, profile); } if (profileTemplate.snippets) { progress(localize('progress snippets', "Applying Snippets...")); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(SnippetsResource).apply(profileTemplate.snippets, profile); } if (profileTemplate.globalState) { progress(localize('progress global state', "Applying State...")); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(GlobalStateResource).apply(profileTemplate.globalState, profile); } if (profileTemplate.extensions && extensions) { progress(localize('progress extensions', "Applying Extensions...")); await this.instantiationService.createInstance(ExtensionsResource, extensionsDisabled).apply(profileTemplate.extensions, profile); } progress(localize('switching profile', " Applying...")); await this.userDataProfileManagementService.switchProfile(profile); return profile; </ins> } private async resolveProfileContent(resource: URI): Promise<string | null> {