Visual Studio “Find” results in “No files were found to look in. Find stopped progress.”

According to this thread:

Posted by Microsoft on 10/13/2009 at
4:33 PM

Hi all,

Thank you for your continued interest
in this bug. We have been able to
reproduce the issue intermittently in
several versions of Visual Studio
running on several versions of Windows
and have identified the root cause as
external to VS. The Windows team
unfortunately did not have time to fix
this for their current release, but we
are working with them to hopefully
have this bug fixed for a future
version of Windows. At present, the
workaround (as many of you noted) is
to press Ctrl+Scroll Lock, Ctrl+Break,
or the Break key alone.

Again, thanks for all of the details
you provided about this bug. If you
have any further questions or
comments, please feel free to post
again here; although this issue was
closed quite a while ago, I’ll make
sure it stays on our radar.

Thanks, Brittany Behrens Program
Manager, VS Platform – Editor

This bug has been around since at least 2004 and, as of the above post in 2009, had not been fixed.