Strange Visual Studio Behavior

Question

My computer began to do something strange the other day and it is seriously annoying. I have not made any changes to the system, but for some reason now, when I double-click on the visual studio solution file, it does not open. The only way to open projects is to open the program, and then go to the file → open and go to the solution.

In addition, I have a program attached to my taskbar (Windows 7), and I have it configured to run as an administrator, but whenever I click a button, it still asks me if I want to allow the program to make changes to my computer, Any thoughts on how I can get things back and work the way they used to?

Answer 1

• Disable UAC
• Test
• The solution may be to change the version of Microsoft Visual Studio Selector to run as an administrator. To do this, go to% ProgramFiles% \ Shared files \ Microsoft Shared \ MSEnv or% ProgramFiles (x86)% \ Shared files \ Microsoft Shared \ MSEnv (64-bit), right-click on VSLauncher.exe and select "Properties". Go to the "Compatibility" tab and "Run this program as administrator."
• Test
• If the above does not work, try also deleting the contents of C: \ Users \ username \ AppData \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ VisualStudio \ 10.0. If you have any valuable settings, save the folder before deleting it.

Answer 2

You probably lost the file association. Right-click the solution file and open it, then select VS2010 from the list and check the box to make it the default.

Regarding opening VS2010 as an administrator, I am using a trick (read it somewhere but don’t remember where).

I have a separate admin icon on my desktop (etc.) with the following:

C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "VS2010 - Admin" 

Then in the task scheduler, I have a task:

 Name: VS2010 - Admin Location: \ Desc: Runs VS2010 with Admin privileges Action: Start a Program Run with Highest Priveleges checked Program: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" Allow to be run on demand 

Then, when you run the icon, it will start the schedule, which will start VS as admin: D