needless to say that it makes the ide useless...
anybody had similar problems
Try resetting VS to it's original state by clicking customize, then reset.
Hope this helps
thank you for your suggestions.
unfortunately the menus are still messed up...
when installing the sp1 it's ok for a couple of days but then suddenly it's like on the screenshot.
it can't be the solution to install the sp1 over and over again
OK,
1. do you have any add-ins installed If so, which ones Add-ins can to all sorts of things to menus. Tho, I haven't seen this sort of thing since my Office 2000 development days.
2. If you can get it back to the original state using the reset, Save your ide settings. To do this: on the Tools menu is a menu called "Import and Export Settings". Export all of the settings to a files. Then if it happens again you can import the settings and reset Visual Studio to how you wanted it. You can also move settings from one machine to another. So if you have another computer with Visual Studio installed and this is not happening, export the settings from that computers Visual Studio and import them on the other computer with visual studio.
Good luck.