How to Fix Visual Studio Search in Files Not Displaying List of Files Error?


In Visual Studio, you can use short-cut Ctrl+Shift+F to find string in files (in solution, current project or current document), and sometimes you are unlucky to get this error:

visual-studio-search-not-working How to Fix Visual Studio Search in Files Not Displaying List of Files Error? Visual Studio

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The actual search occurrence is not listed in the result box, which virtually makes this search-in-files useless. You can either repair the Visual Studio installation or, use the following quicker tricks to fix this. Save the following into *.reg and double click. Click OK to modify the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{73B7DC00-F498-4ABD-AB79-D07AFD52F395}]
@="PSFactoryBuffer"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{73B7DC00-F498-4ABD-AB79-D07AFD52F395}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\MSEnv\\TextMgrP.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

This should make the error go away by fixing the registry problem. It is believed to be caused by third-party plugins/software which makes the registry corrupted.

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