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user605334
user605334

Reputation:

Visual Studio freezes or hangs on startup

I have been using Visual Studio for a while and found that when I open visual studio and open the project all the files that were open last time remain open.

This causes my Visual Studio to freeze or crash on startup.

I am using a lot of plugins in my installation and wonder if there is a way to prevent this from happening.

Upvotes: 59

Views: 75696

Answers (15)

Anachronism
Anachronism

Reputation: 417

I had a hang (not responding) in VS2015 for a about 5 minutes after starting VS 2015 (the hang itself started about 2 minutes after VS 2015 opened).

It turned out that the SQM (Quality Metrics Service) and created thousands of files in C:\Users(me)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon\14.0\SQM.

Deleting these file fixed the problem.

Turned off SQM via Windows registry by setting the dword to zero under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VSCommon\14.0

Upvotes: 1

gimlichael
gimlichael

Reputation: 1394

If your Visual Studio 2019 is stuck due to a faulty extensions, here is a way to get it back to normal.

First, start Visual Studio in safe mode (devenv.exe /SafeMode) and uninstall the troublemaker.

Hereafter, if Visual Studio 2019 is still unresponsive, you need to do the following:

  • Browse to %LOCALAPPDATA% and go to Microsoft -> VisualStudio -> 16.0_bb6da863 (or whatever version you have installed)
  • Delete the following folders (all cache related):
    • ComponentModelCache
    • ImageLibrary
    • MFECacheBackup
    • Extensions\*.cache

For reference:

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Hope it helps you and safe a VS repair/reinstall.

Happy coding :-)

Upvotes: 1

Haseeb
Haseeb

Reputation: 990

This is becuase of rendering IDE UI try this hope it will resolve

1- Open "Visual Studio"

2- Select "Options" from the top menu

3- Navigate to "Environment => General"

4- Unchecked "Optimize rendering for screens with different pixel densities"

5- Restart visual studio

Upvotes: 1

Pasha Kurmak
Pasha Kurmak

Reputation: 1

This helped me: I deleted all SDK, JDK & JRE folders that had been rooted in VS settings before. After that I used devenv.exe /ResetUserData and devenv.exe /ResetSettings.

Worked for me on Visual Studio 2015.

Upvotes: 0

Gurpreet Singh
Gurpreet Singh

Reputation: 1731

Run: Devenv /ResetSkipPkgs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241276%28VS.80%29.aspx

or

You are probably looking for the /SafeMode command line switch:

devenv.exe /SafeMode

This will start Visual Studio with all add-ins disabled.

Upvotes: 29

GhosterNet
GhosterNet

Reputation: 43

I have got recently VS2017 stucked on start up . so I did this and worked for me : 1 - start cmd as admin : run the following:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE" devenv.exe /SafeMode

2- once VS is started , go to Tools => Extentions and Updates : then uninstall all plug-ins that installed recently ( notice the installed date ) and unnecessary ones)

Upvotes: 0

VidasV
VidasV

Reputation: 4895

Have you tried resetting user settings? It did help me:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /ResetUserData

Upvotes: 35

Wynand
Wynand

Reputation: 61

Clear the tag's elements in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config

Also do the same with C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config

The tag should just be <runtime/>

Upvotes: 1

Walter Stabosz
Walter Stabosz

Reputation: 7735

Check Task Manager. I had a Setup.exe running (not sure what it was installing), but once I killed it, VS unfroze.

Upvotes: 0

John Larimer
John Larimer

Reputation: 1

I was having this issue when using the Git source-control plugin.

I ran devenv.exe /SafeMode

And then in Options -> Source Control -> Plug-in Selection made sure "None" or "Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" was selected. After that, VS started normally.

Upvotes: 0

Gyuri
Gyuri

Reputation: 109

devenv.exe /ResetSettings

or

devenv.exe /ResetSetting

Worked fine for me

Upvotes: 10

ndarriulat
ndarriulat

Reputation: 849

I had the same issue with Community 2015 version. I solved it with Vidas Vasiliauskas suggestion, which was to erase user settings.

The thing is that I previously had 2015 version, in which I was logged in with my Microsoft account. When trying to open version, it tried to do so with that same account, which I believe was the cause of the issue.

Therefore, I would suggest to those with the same problem to run the following command at Command Line Prompt:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /ResetUserData

Upvotes: 5

mark van tilburg
mark van tilburg

Reputation: 11

When it hangs on the splash screen:

It could be that an anti-virus solution is blocking Visual Studio.

Kaspersky Internet Security 16.0.1.445 makes Visual Studio 2015 hang on the splash screen. The older version 16.0.0.614 works fine.

Upvotes: 1

Kerry Randolph
Kerry Randolph

Reputation: 621

In my case, VS 2013 Professional was hanging on startup because the license was no longer valid.

Last item in the log file:

<entry>
    <record>367</record>
    <time>2015/07/13 20:11:05.051</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>UserConnection</source>
    <description>[email protected] signed in for IDE user</description>
</entry>

And on the msdn.microsoft.com subscription page: "Your subscription is no longer active, contact your administrator."

I had to get an updated subscription from my employer.

Upvotes: 1

Soner G&#246;n&#252;l
Soner G&#246;n&#252;l

Reputation: 98740

You can change your Visual Studio 2010 start up settings.

Tools --> Options --> Startup --> At startup --> Show empty environment --> Save

Visual Studio has a plugins limit. Use only plugins that best for you. There is a list for best Visual Studio 2010 plugins for developers.

Visual Studio 2010 - recommended extensions

Upvotes: 10

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