Good day!

My Find/Replace Edit Menu command inside VB 2005 is not working anymore, and SQL Server 2005 as well. When I tried to check this feature in Microsoft Office applications, there is no problem at all. It's mysterious, I don't know what happen. I also tried to re-install VB and SQL, but still it didn't work.

I know it is a petty problem, but it plays an important role when editing your codes.

Please help. Thanks

Mmm, it looks like the window's settings somehow got corrupted. Could you guys run the following command and let us know whether this fixes it:

devenv.exe /ResetSettings

Note that this will reset all window layouts and keyboard mappings to the default settings, so you will lose any customization that you currently have for the VS enviornment.

Hope this helps,

What do you mean its not working? Can you elaborate some more? Is it missing, does it exist, but do nothing when you click it, etc?

Regards,
Patrick Baker
Microsoft VisualStudio ProfessionalDataTeam

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Cali, I'm having the exact same problem. The Find dialog (or Find and Replace, either one) no longer appears. When you request one of these dialogs, the IDE's title bar fades slightly, looking as if it's yielding focus to another dialog, but that other dialog never appears.

You're not crazy, Cali. :) Ever figure it out? This sucks.

Mmm, it looks like the window's settings somehow got corrupted. Could you guys run the following command and let us know whether this fixes it:

devenv.exe /ResetSettings

Note that this will reset all window layouts and keyboard mappings to the default settings, so you will lose any customization that you currently have for the VS enviornment.

Hope this helps,

My Find/Replace dialog also stopped appearing today.

devenv.exe /ResetSettings

fixed the problem.

Does anyone happen to know how to do this on SQL Server Management Console? Just happened to me there.

Thanks,

Greg

hi i tried to do devenv/resetsettings but still face the same problem, cannot do a find / replace on the editor.

Hi there.I had also posted this problem earlier...found the answer on a different forum.

I've had this happen in all visual studio 2005 apps.

What seems to be happening is that the find/replace window is there, it's just 'almost' hidden. Drove me nuts. Look around the very edges of the monitor, especially on the bottom. Auto-hide the task bar. You'll see somewhere a very light line that is the edge of the window and you can drag it back.

I honestly didn't believe this when I got the answer from a Microsoft rep on a different forum but he was right. What's needed, and what i hope is coming is a keyboard/menu shortcut to center any active window in the screen so it snaps back.

Now I still don't know what 'causes' it, i certainly didn't bury the window this often. Butat least it only takes me a couple seconds to fix now.

Greg

Yes! That was it. It was hiding at the very bottom of the query window, just a thin line showing.