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

I had this very issue after being forced to reinstall Visual Studio 2010 to get BizTalk 2010 ESB working.

I was unable to download KB2581206 as it appears to have no valid content any more. However there is an alternative download which also does the job...

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29082

...which is the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Team Foundation Server Compatibility GDR.