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

The below solution worked for me

• Make sure all the instances of Visual studio are closed.
• Go to %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_****
• Delete the file privateregistry.bin