How to Remove an Empty Axialis Toolbar from Visual Studio

I began having problems with the Axialis icon editing toolbar in Visual Studio a few weeks ago. It would appear as a short, empty, ugly little toolbar within Visual Studio. I would remove it, even delete it out of Visual Studio, and it still hung around and appeared there every time I started up. Fortunately for me, this problem has a simple fix.

If you’re using a x86 machine, edit the following within the registry:
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AddIns\IconWorkshopAddin.Connect
Set value CommandPreload to 0×00000000 (0).

If you’re using a x64 machine, edit the following within the registry:
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AddIns\IconWorkshopAddin.Connect
Set value CommandPreload to 0×00000000 (0).

References:

http://www.axialis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2179

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  1. eRRaTuM Says: August 13th, 2009 at 6:04 am

    Thank you, that axialis bar annoyed me for something like 6 months ^_^

  • eRRaTuM Says: August 13th, 2009 at 6:05 am

    If you have VS 2K5 then it’s the 8.0 subkey.
    ThanX once more.

  • Someone Says: January 14th, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    Thank you! and thank you google.

  • Igo Says: March 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 am

    Thanx alot! That was really annoying.

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