The way around this is to always gracefully exit when you have set up everything like you want it to be.Not sure if this will help your particular situation though. That means that if VS crashes at all while you are using it, any layout changes you made will be lost. I close them, but they always come backWhen you say 'they always come back' do you mean 'next time you restart Visual Studio' or 'immediately'?One quirk of Visual Studio (at least VS2005) is that settings aren't saved until you exit. However, restoring CurrentSettings.vssettings seems to have cured it.There seems to be a bunch of binary stuff in there and I can imagine it gets irretrievably corrupted sometimes. I tried restoring the VS current user settings in the registry from a backup, but that didn't help. Then what you want to make sure is that your program is reset on your Toxic Biohazard by hitting Options and then Reset Program. When I restarted, my window layout would then be totally screwed. When I tried to enter debug, I was told that VS had become unstable. If you have an old backup copy of CurrentSettings.vssettings, you can try restoring it.I had a completely corrupted Visual Studio layout. Press Ctrl/Cmd + (+) or (-) to maximize or minimize content. Press Ctrl/Cmd + F to activate Search field.
