title: Pop-up Window Fails to Appear in Windows 7
body: <p>I have been scratching my head about this issue for a while:</p>
  
  <p>I use Visual Studio 2005 as my development environment, running on Windows 7 Professional.  </p>
  
  <p>I use components from <strong>Infragistics</strong> for development, including what is called an UltraRibbon
  When I use property links that are found in the properties description area, Visual Studio will act as if there is a <strong>modal pop-up</strong> window in front of it, but there will be no pop-up visible.  The only solution I've found to get control of VS again is to kill the program from the task manager.  I found ways around using the pop-ups for editing and forgot about the issue.  </p>
  
  <p>Then the following occurred:</p>
  
  <p>The software I use has an email function that pop-ups up a mailto window (using Outlook, or whatever the default email program is) and the pop-up is modal (it shouldn't be, but that's another issue altogether);  When I select the option that would bring this pop-up into view, the application freezes, as if there was a modal pop-up in front of it, however there is none, but if I click Outlook open and then close it, the software unfreezes.  <em>(Note: The Software is running in Debug mode initiated by Visual Studio)</em></p>
  
  <p>I believe that there is an issue with Visual Studio that is causing <strong>Modal Pop-up's</strong> to appear invisible, or off screen somewhere, in cases where external applications are referenced.  It doesn't seem to be a problem for regular Pop-ups.  </p>
  
  <p>What is going on with my system?  Are these two situations related?  Any help would be great.  I have not found any specific references to anything like this when I googled the issues I was seeing.  </p>