Error creating new MVC project - EF and JQuery

Question

Whenever I create a new MVC project, I am getting an error - failed to initialize Powershell host, for the entity framework and Jquery. The error: The following packages failed

Answer 1

For future searchers, if aSkywalker's solution isn't working for you, try running VS as administrator. That did it for me (and even more strangely, I haven't seen the error again since... I can't explain that).