Why does CTRL-SHIFT-F redraw several windows on my desktop in Visual Studio?

Question

Hi !

I have a 3 monitor setup and usually have Visual Studio 2008 open and the help on another screen and some other windows. When I press CTRL-SHIFT-F to open the Find and Replace Dialog, my desktop starts to redraw several windows on my desktop. That extremly slows down opening that dialog for me.

Btw. this also happens when I open that dialog by the pulldown menu. Interestingly, this does not happen for some other windows like the project properties in a C++ solutions. The other windows don't redraw.

I'm not sure if something goes wrong in VS or in all the other apps, but for example the msdn help browser redraws as well while the vista explorer does not - or I can't see it.

Is there a work around for this? Depending on the amount of windows open opening this dialog sometimes takes 15s.

Best regards Marc

Answer 1

It happens for me, too, in VS2008 and can be incredibly frustrating, but I am afraid your only option is to create an incident for it at Microsoft Connect.

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/

Answer 2

Try using Ctrl+H for find and replace.