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Gilad Naaman
Gilad Naaman

Reputation: 6550

Visual-Studio fails at start-up

In the last few days, every time I open VS (2010) it crashes right after start-up: enter image description here As weird as it is, when I'm debugging VS with a new instance of vs, it does not crash, and I'm able to close the solution and work properly.

Also when I start VS with a solution (with Win7's jump lists or using CMD arguments), I get an "explorer crashed and will restart" message that instantly disappears. After it, visual studio starts normally. My system:

How can I solve this problem or at least figure out how to investgate it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 557

Answers (3)

JaredPar
JaredPar

Reputation: 754525

It looks like Visual Studio is in a bad state. The most likely causes of this are

  • A misbehaving extension
  • The install is corrupted in some way

To rule out the misbehaving extensions run devenv.exe with the /SafeMode option. If this works then I'd start uninstalling extensions till you find the guilty party.

If it still crashes with /SafeMode then I'd repair the install through "Add / Remove Programs"

Upvotes: 1

SupaOden
SupaOden

Reputation: 742

Best bet would be to do a complete re-install after uninstalling VS 2010. This could be because some libraries could be missing or there's some conflict.

Upvotes: 0

DaveShaw
DaveShaw

Reputation: 52788

Have you tried resetting all the VS settings?

Upvotes: 1

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