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  • November 25, 2009 at 9:48 pm #162
    JD Kromkowski
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    So I seem to have lost the debug tools. The debug toolbar is there. But it’s just blank. I can move the empty thing around. I can turn it on and off. But it has nothing in it?

    November 26, 2009 at 11:34 am #1425
    Michael
    Keymaster

    JDK wrote:
    > So I seem to have lost the debug tools. The debug toolbar is there.
    > But it's just blank. I can move the empty thing around. I can turn
    > it on and off. But it has nothing in it?
    >

    That is very strange. So you can see the toolbar itself, but there is
    nothing in it? My immediate thought is to do a restart and see if it
    persists. If it does, it may be necessary to delete a set of keys from
    the registry.

    Ciao, Neil

    December 2, 2009 at 2:37 am #1798
    JD Kromkowski
    Participant

    I had already restarted many times. What are the registry keys. The tool
    bar is there. I can turn it on an off. I can move it around. But it is
    empty.

    JDK

    > JDK wrote:
    >> So I seem to have lost the debug tools. The debug toolbar is there.
    >> But it's just blank. I can move the empty thing around. I can turn
    >> it on and off. But it has nothing in it?
    >>

    Neil Robinson wrote
    > That is very strange. So you can see the toolbar itself, but there is
    > nothing in it? My immediate thought is to do a restart and see if it
    > persists. If it does, it may be necessary to delete a set of keys from
    > the registry.
    > Ciao, Neil

    December 3, 2009 at 6:39 am #1812
    JD Kromkowski
    Participant

    That worked. Surprisingly, a reinstall didn't work. I'd have thought
    that an install would delete the old registry keys.

    December 3, 2009 at 11:03 am #1729
    Michael
    Keymaster

    JDK wrote:
    > I had already restarted many times. What are the registry keys. The
    > tool bar is there. I can turn it on an off. I can move it around.
    > But it is empty.
    >
    > JDK
    >
    >
    >
    >> JDK wrote:
    >>> So I seem to have lost the debug tools. The debug toolbar is
    >>> there. But it's just blank. I can move the empty thing around.
    >>> I can turn it on and off. But it has nothing in it?
    >>>
    >
    > Neil Robinson wrote
    >> That is very strange. So you can see the toolbar itself, but there
    >> is nothing in it? My immediate thought is to do a restart and see
    >> if it persists. If it does, it may be necessary to delete a set of
    >> keys from the registry. Ciao, Neil

    Make sure all instances are closed. Then you delete the key plus the
    entire subtree for HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSIMPOL and when you
    restart, things should be okay again.

    Ciao, Neil

    December 4, 2009 at 6:06 pm #1556
    Michael
    Keymaster

    JDK wrote:
    > That worked. Surprisingly, a reinstall didn't work. I'd have
    > thought that an install would delete the old registry keys.
    >

    No, the installer doesn't even look in the HKEY_USER section. That gets
    built for each user on the machine the first time you fire it up, by
    retrieving data from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Also, that is where
    user-specific customization is stored, and I don't think most people
    would thank me if I trashed their customizations every time they
    installed an update. Things like colors, tab widths, autosave info,
    default project directory, etc.

    Ciao, Neil

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