IDE changes setting on it's own

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Armin Zingler - 02 Aug 2005 08:46 GMT

Hi,

after intallation of VS.Net 2003, I changed the option from starting with
"Start page" to "Empty environment". This worked for weeks now. I've been
using and starting it many times. Some days ago, it suddenly started with
the "Start page". I looked in the options and it has been changed to "Start
page". I did not change it (and nobody else did). I changed it back to
"empty environment". This morning the same thing happened again: The IDE
started with the start page and the option has been changed. For sure, I did
not change this setting.

Is this a known problem? Will there be a SP or will I have to buy VS 2005 to
get a bug fix?

Armin

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Scot T Brennecke - 02 Aug 2005 20:46 GMT

Armin,
This may be an artifact of something happening on your local machine or network, rather than a
"bug" in VS. When you change the setting, this clearly gets stored either in the registry or in a
local file. But consider if either your setting change is not being saved, or if old files are
being restored, replacing the changed one. This may be related to write permissions or roaming
profiles, or other seemingly unrelated network or file system issues.

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Armin Zingler - 02 Aug 2005 21:28 GMT

It's not a network, only a local machine. No files are restored. There are
no read/write limitations. I'm logged in as Admin. It also happened today
after closing and reopening VS. Only one instance was running. I did not
change any settings (apart from correcting it again).

Armin

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Scot T Brennecke - 03 Aug 2005 09:21 GMT

Armin,
I've determined that this setting is saved in the registry, under the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\General
The value OnEnvironmentStartup holds the index of the selection in the droplist; "Show Empty
Environment" is index 4, and "Show Start Page" is index 0. So, if either that registry value gets
deleted (most likely defaulting to 0 when recreated), or if you log on as a different user (thereby
using a different HKCU root), the startup option could be different than what you wanted.

> It's not a network, only a local machine. No files are restored. There are
> no read/write limitations. I'm logged in as Admin. It also happened today after closing and
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Armin Zingler - 03 Aug 2005 09:35 GMT

Scot,

Thanks for searching, but this doesn't explain *why* it changes on it's own.
I'll use a registry monitoring tool to watch for changes. I'll let you know
as soon as I find it out. Let's hope the problem will appear again... (or
not).

BTW, I'm always logged in as the same user.

Armin

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