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I have a strange problem which seems to have recently appeared. I used to be able to press the keyboard shortcut CTRL+M+O to 'collapse to definitions' in VS2010 when editing code, but it seems suddenly the CTRL+M key seems to have stopped working. When I now press the key combination I get the Open File dialogue.

I have tried the obvious things like resetting the keyboard scheme in Tools > Options but this has had no effect, I did also check that the default mapping for the keys were present and no other settings were overriding it in VS2010.

I have tried searching for an answer on the internet but can't find any other solutions. Has anyone heard of this happening before and do you know of a way to resolve this problem.

In addition, I very recently installed the new Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite, I am starting to wonder if this has any relation to this, although I'm not sure why it would! I have not had any of the apps running whilst VS2010 has been open. This could be of course a red herring!

Thanks

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Start killing processes with Taskmgr.exe, Processes tab. You'll eventually find the one that's sucking Ctrl+M with a windows hook.

Hans Passant
That was actually a good idea and I managed to narrow it down to the Bing bar, which I had disabled in IE but it still had a process running. It was installed with the new Windows Live Essentials 2011, killing that process brought back my CTRL+M key combo. Thanks very much!
DevTez
Okey dokey, sounds like an answer. Please close your thread by marking it answered.
Hans Passant
Just to finally add, I had to uninstall Bing bar from Add/Remove programs as the process kept on appearing again after a few seconds.
DevTez