Visual Studio 2017 HRESULT: 0x80070005 / E_ACCESSDENIED on project creation

Question

I\'m running Visual Studio 2017, version 15.0.0+26228.9

When I\'m trying to create a new project via File > New > Project... in Visual Studio 2017, I\'

Answer 1

I had the same error. I solved it by following the procedure :

• Shutdown all instances of Visual Studio
• Delete %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_f4938f75\privateregistry.bin file (the ID after 15.0_ may be different per machines)
• Start VS as normal user

all credit for this should go to https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/31188/access-denied-error-1.html