When Your Software Experiences Amnesia
February 26, 2007 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
I’ve had a couple of experiences this week where software that I’ve had installed for months and have run multiple times in the month, week or even day doesn’t seem to remember who I am.
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Is it a bad sign when your own software denies they’ve even met you before? What causes this? i would expect it if I were signing into my computer with a different login from one period to another, but I will get this message within the same day of using the software and haven’t even had a restart.
Is the software not linking itself to my hardware for validation?
Anyone else seeing this?
Nise site!
Look at Issue 1.45 on this list for the Visual Studio message:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718685.aspx
I tried to do the same thing with SQL Mgmt Studio, but it was much more difficult b/c there is no menu option. The short of it was that I change this registry key to be a path locally on my C-Drive:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Microsoft SQL Server -> 90 -> Tools -> Shell -> VisualStudioLocation
This in turn changes the dynamic variable used in the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Microsoft SQL Server -> 90 -> Tools -> Shell -> Profile -> BrowseFiles
NOTE: Move your current settings file to a “settings” folder within your new “VisualStudioLocation” path, or you’ll get an error the next time you start up Mgmt. Studio.
I think it goes without say, but here goes:
“Make these registry settings at your own risk. I am not responsible for anything bad that may come of this suggestion.”
Thank you,
Rob
Thanks everyone!
One problem with Rob78’s suggestion. The HKEY_CURRENT_USER section in the registry is overrided by the specific user’s settings. Doing a search for VisualStudioLocation under {some identidy clsid} -> Software -> Microsoft -> Microsoft SQL Server -> 90 -> Tools -> Shell