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nihaljp
nihaljp

Reputation: 285

White screen while opening Visual Studio

I installed Visual Studio 2015 yesterday. When I opened it it stated that a .dll file missing, so I downloaded that file, and after that it showed a component was missing, so I went to devenv.exe and executed that directly as an administrator and it started up, but Visual Studio still isn't working.

It shows a white colour for most of the screen, including the menu (so I can't get to options to change settings).

Upvotes: 12

Views: 26902

Answers (4)

Jani
Jani

Reputation: 406

Try from your white screen: Press: Alt+T for Tools, then O for Options and untick the following boxes as shown, click OK and reopen Visual Studio.

Screenshot of the settings to disable in the Environment > General section of Visual Studio Options

Useful keyboard navigation from ka_sh's comment:

In case the Options menu is also not visible, then from the General section, press the following keys: 3x Tab, 1x A, 1x Tab, 1x E, 1x Tab, 1x U, and then 1x Enter.

Upvotes: 39

Jay
Jay

Reputation: 233

I had a similar issue today with both VS 2015 and VS 2017; I was presented with the normal black VS 2017 splash screen and after that closed, it opened a blank white screen.

I opened device manager and noticed that my NVIDIA driver had an issue, so I reinstalled the drivers and updated the Intel HD Graphics 530 graphics driver, but had the same issue.

I then disabled the Intel driver, and opened VS again, and it worked!

After some more playing about, I re-enabled the Intel driver and opened the NVIDIA control panel, changed the 3D settings from Auto-Select to the High-performance NVIDIA processor and all now appears to be working well!

Upvotes: 5

Soham Bhattacharyya
Soham Bhattacharyya

Reputation: 993

I had the same problem. I solved this one by doing the following:

  1. Run visual studio from command prompt devenv.exe /resetsettings

  2. Open Tools -> Import and Export Settings

  3. Select "Reset all settings"

After resetting all settings I could open Visual Studio 2017 normally again.

But after that you need to login to get the full license instead of the trial one.

Upvotes: 2

Tim Penner
Tim Penner

Reputation: 3541

It seems like you have a corrupt installation and it would be advisable to repair the installation

1) Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Programs.
2) Click Programs and Features and then select the Visual Studio Edition you installed.
3) Click Uninstall/Change.
4) In the setup wizard, select Repair or Reinstall and then click Next.
5) Follow the remaining instructions in the installation wizard to finish.

If that doesn't work you should complete a full uninstall.

If the uninstall doesn't work please try the fixit link from microsoft.com

If the fixit link from Microsoft doesnt work you can use the manual uninstall instructions found on msdn.

Also make sure your system meets the minimum system requirements and you should review the compatibility page:

Upvotes: 2

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