Visual Studio 2015 does not start

Question

We have installed Visual Studio 2015 Professional on Windows 7. It was working fine. But after we installed updates from the menu Tools-->\'Extensions and Updates\' today the Vi

Answer 1

I had the same problem. It was caused by Visual Studio Extensions adding paths to $PATH, which made $PATH grow too long (>2048 bytes).

This breaks VS and lots of other stuff on your machine.

Removing outdated and duplicate lines from $PATH made it short enough and VS2015 and everything worked again.