Visual Studio 2008 Hide the Undo Close window

Question

All of a sudden, my Visual Studio 2008 Pro install is doing something very annoying (I know, hard to believe, right?)

For any existing project I load, the Undo Close window opens as a floating window. Even if I close the window and save the SLN, it continues to pop up.

Anyone know how I can stop it from opening?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 05 '12 at 16:29

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Workaround from MSDN by changing the Windows Registry

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=15

Open Regedit and go to the {eccc9e97-fd3b-4c15-af76-ef71a71d8b17} folder (depends on your OS, see below) and remove the Visibility subfolder. Then just restart Visual Studio and you are done.

Windows 7 32-bit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ToolWindows\{eccc9e97-fd3b-4c15-af76-ef71a71d8b17}

Windows 7 64-bit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ToolWindows\{eccc9e97-fd3b-4c15-af76-ef71a71d8b17}

edited Oct 05 '12 at 16:29

Mariano Desanze

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answered Jan 24 '11 at 14:57

Jacob Ewald

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the reg entry modification fixed it. cant believe i didnt find this before. thanks – E. Rodriguez Jan 24 '11 at 18:36

Visual Studio 2008 Hide the Undo Close window

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Workaround from MSDN by changing the Windows Registry