Visual Studio 2010 crashes on startup

Question

We have been using vs 2010 for years on this machine, (server 2003) and now visual studio just started crashing on startup. there is no way to run it at all, it just crash

Answer 1

Following worked for me

1. Close all instances of VS

2. go to [System Drive]:\Users[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0

3. delete all the files and folders from the above folder.

and reopen the VS and everything should be back to normal.