Intellisense auto-complete is causing VC++ in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 to crash

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UPDATE1: I have reinstalled Visual Studio and I am still having this problem. My guess is there is a problem with my environment. Update2: Diving in. I attached windbg to devenv and set a breakpoint in windbg for msenv!_tailMerge_WINMM_dll and traced through. This is trying to load winmm.dll using the LoadLibrary API. I can see that LoadLibrary is failing and GetLastError is returning 5 which is "access denied". now, why would vs be denied access to winmm.dll? ---Begin Original--- I am currently having a serious issue with Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Intellisense in C++. I have an all native solution with on project. Whenever I, or the editor, attempt to invoke intellisense auto-complete pow, Visual Studio crashes. I even tried this with a brand new console app. Ctrl + Space in the empty main and Visual Studio crashes. I googled for help on this but to no avail. I have tried deleting the ncb file but no luck on that front either. I am currently working with Intellisense turned off as shown…

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What a bizarre problem.

I finally figured it out using procmon from sysinternals:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

My sounds were somehow changed to windows default sounds after a recent trip to IT. This caused visual studio to play a clicking sound when intellisense happens. In order to play this sound winmm.dll must be loaded up, which is located c:\windows\system32\winmm.dll.

I suppose through debugging foray winmm.dll symbols were downloaded to a FOLDER called C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\winmm.dll. Of course this folder looked mighty tasty to Visual Studio, so when it tried to load the winmm.dll folder as a dll file POW!!!

I deleted the folder, and some other .dll folders :) and all is well.

Thanks for your help.

Intellisense auto-complete is causing VC++ in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 to crash

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