It was around three in the morning and I was so under the gun that, here's my moment of genuine stupidity, I backed NOTHING up before running this registry 'cleaner'. After doing some web searching on my symptoms late one night, I desperately tried a 'Registry Fixer' type utility that Well, not usually at least.Ī month or two ago I was working out of state on a project and was under a deadline when I began to have strange errors in Visual Studio. I am experienced as an Exchange administrator, Systems Engineer, Network Engineer, and Security Architect in addition to being a MS Certified developer (weird profile, I admit). I am a Solution Architect with 13 years in the field. However, my situation is slightly different than all the others so here's to maybe providing some clues which ultimately solve this for all of us. I've read all the various post concerning similar issues and have found no answers that have helped me.