How to stop contextmenu in visualstudio 2008 from dissapearing.

Question

Whenever I rightclick something in visualstudio, I get a context menu for about half a second. Then it goes away, before I got a chance to click anything. Sometimes if I'm really fast I manage to click something anyway, then it works.

So annoying.

Sometimes the problem goes away for a few hours, then it comes back (in the sams visual studio instance). I tried uninstalling all plugins, reinstalling visual studio, all to no avail).

This doesn't happen in any other program.

I am hoping somebody else has seen this problem and found a way to fix it.

WinXP, Visual Studio 2008.

PS I hope this question doesn't fall outside the scope of stackoverflow.

Answer 1

Have you tried using a different mouse? Replaced the batteries in a wireless one etc.

Answer 2

Perhaps try using the menu key on your keyboard and see if that has any effect.

Answer 3

Have you installed SP1? I seem to remember seeing something like this before and thought that it was this issue (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB947751) but having re-read your question maybe not?

Answer 4

For anybody running into this in the future:

Reinstalling made this problem go away. Reinstalling VisualSVN made this problem come back. Reinstalling fixed it again.