I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for generating a baseline of MOSS environments. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team edition or Test edition is perfect for testing performance or creating a baseline of an SharePoint environment.

Today I wanted to create a baseline of a MOSS environment. I used my new laptop with Windows 7 x64 edition and Visual Studio 2008 Team edition to create a new web test project. Usually Internet Explorer starts and you can record your test activities on your MOSS environment. But this time it is not recording any activities and the test taskbar isn’t available. After some research I tried to delete the following registry keys from the 32bit version of the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDiscardablePostSetupComponent Categories{00021493-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDiscardablePostSetupComponent Categories{00021494-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}

The above registry deletes the cached version of the vertical and horizontal taskbars within IE.

If I try to record a new webtest it worked immediately. Problem solved.