How can I remove items from the "Look in:" combo box in Visual Studio's "Find and Replace" dialog?

I have inadvertantly added some entries to the "Find and Replace" dialog in Visual Studio 2010. See picture below:

enter image description here

I want to remove \r\n, Double, etc.

How can I do this?

visual-studio-2010

Welton v3.59

Posted 2012-03-21T14:02:06.530

Reputation: 555

How the heck did you add them? :) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2012-03-21T15:42:16.700

I'm not even sure. My best guess is that the focus was in that field when I was typing and I didn't notice. – Welton v3.59 – 2012-03-21T21:43:30.207

Answers

These entries are located in the following registry key:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Find

They will be prefixed with Query and then followed by a number.

Welton v3.59

Posted 2012-03-21T14:02:06.530

Reputation: 555

Such an entry is not present when you use VS 2017 (version 15.0). – jciloa – 2019-06-21T11:46:59.753

@jciloa Visual Studio 2017 uses its own private registry hive. See here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41119996/where-does-visual-studio-2017-store-its-config

– Dai – 2019-07-04T15:02:53.057

3It's simply ridiculous that you need to edit the registry to remove something from the "Look in" field. Thanks for this answer though. – zzzzBov – 2012-10-04T15:19:42.857

4Note that the entries came back after I deleted them using regedt32.exe, because I then closed a running Visual Studio instance, after doing a "Save All". So close VS before deleting them. And that further entries can be found in ...\Find\Named that still show up in "Look In". Did not try to remove those. – ddevienne – 2014-05-06T09:10:37.623

The location for those entries is:

HKEY_USERS \ {user guid} \Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Find

where [user guid] is the guid for the current user.

really I just searched the registry for some entries that I added by accident while testing if there was another way to remove them.

Ryan_S

Posted 2012-03-21T14:02:06.530

Reputation: 624

Such an entry is not present when you use VS 2017 (version 15.0). – jciloa – 2019-06-21T11:47:03.170

Nitpick: Users don't have GUID, instead they have SIDs. A SID has a different format to a GUID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Identifier

– Dai – 2019-07-04T15:01:14.203