I made a comment about the state of VS options in a previous post and thought it would be interesting to see which options:

1. People had no idea what the option actually did?
2. People understood the option but had no idea why someone would change it?

I'm more than happy to track down the option's people comment on and find why it exists and who the intended audience is for the change.

I just did a quick run down on the VS 2003 environment option pages and the following ones had me scratching my head:

• Environment.General.Animate Environment Tools (with a great slider to adjust the speed!). What - why is this an option?
• Environment.General.Docked Window Behavior. This set of check boxes actually produced a lot of discussion and angst when it was first introduced. The basic gist is that when you are working with Tabbed documents you can control the behavior of the “close” and “pin“ buttons. Close should close only the current window, when the pin affects all windows that are docked. Is this right or not?
• Environment.Documents.Re-use current document window, if saved. Who uses this option - I'm going to ask the team about this option but does anyone ever turn this on?

I stopped here but I'd like to know - which options have you scratching your head?