Question

I think my local install of Visual Studio 2008 has gone a bit scooters.

• When I’m debugging I’m unable to view the “Watch” windows – I’ll see one come up when I click on it but then it disappears.
• Nothing wants to stay where it’s supposed to – the “Watch 2” window wants to stay on the other monitor, there’s intermittently one or two or neither of them, etc.
• There’s now a large gray area at the bottom of the screen which changes shape every time I Alt+Tab

Anyone know of a good way to fix or “reset” everything in VS2008 without having to resort to a reinstall?

Answer 1

2 things you can try:

1) Window menu -> Reset Window Layout

or

2) Close Visual Studio, and then delete the .suo file in your project folder. Re-open your project and all settings should be reset. This is the Studio User Options file. You might want to make a backup copy of it if you don’t like the results.