How to fix Visual Studio debugger watch window showing decompiled values - visual-studio-2012

I have recently installed the RTM version of VS 2012, and when I run the debugger the watch window gives me what appears to be a decompiled vision of the local values. My initial thought was that I accidently hit the "Hexadecimal" display, but that is not the case. When I try to look at sub-properties off a given object, I get nothing, not even a representation if the object is null.
I won't know exactly what I may have set that is causing this, but VS 2010 did not do this, and the first day with VS2012RTM also didn't do this. I'm reasonably certain this is a setting I clicked, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is.
Here are a couple screen shots of what the watch window looks like, and my debugging settings. As an aside, I have tried resetting my settings to factory, and turning IntelliTrace on and off.

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This post originally related to "Visual Studio", but affects other similar applications.
There are a number of posts dealing with a problem where the tab navigation panel appears but requires a click etc to dismiss. These seem to be solved by fiddling with the magnifyer, narrator etc. None of these solutions apply to my problem - which is that, in VS2012, ctrl-tab brings up the two-column navigation panel, repeated presses of tab moves through the lists as normal, but, on release of both keys, the focussed tab is NOT changed. With the nav panel displayed, you can click on it with the mouse and the focussed tab is changed as expected.
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