Hi,

  I am an senior .net developer. My Visual Studio 2005 was working properly for several months. I started on a new laptop and everything was fine. Suddenly (due to a windows update or something), the find (also the find and replace) is not working. When I do Ctl+F (or Edit-Find) or(Edit menu-find and replace) nothing happens. I see my visual studio going out of focus (similar to what happens if another window takes modal position).

I made sure that service pack 1 is installed.

I repaired/re-isntalled and did other things to fix this problem but still no resolution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am having the exact same issue with the same symptoms. It was fine for months then 2 weeks ago it stops working.

Have you tried to restore the setting through Tools | Import and Export settings?

Be sure to read the help first, and make a backup of your current settings.

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
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I figured it out.

I hope this works for everyone who is having the issue.

I kind of noticed something right above my windows taskbar, like maybe a box was almost all of the way off the screen and only a sliver was showing. I hovered over it with the mouse and was able to select it and pull it up. It was the missing Find and Replace window. Somehow it had gotten stretched way out and pushed down almost completely off of the screen. I didn't put it there myself, so I'm not sure what cause it to do this.

Thanks
I was also facing the same problem. I solved it with you sugession..
Thanks again