Visual Studio freezes or hangs on startup

Question

I have been using Visual Studio for a while and found that when I open visual studio and open the project all the files that were open last time remain open.

This ca

Answer 1

Clear the tag's elements in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config

Also do the same with C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config

The tag should just be <runtime/>

Answer 2

This helped me: I deleted all SDK, JDK & JRE folders that had been rooted in VS settings before. After that I used devenv.exe /ResetUserData and devenv.exe /ResetSettings.

Worked for me on Visual Studio 2015.

Answer 3

I was having this issue when using the Git source-control plugin.

I ran devenv.exe /SafeMode

And then in Options -> Source Control -> Plug-in Selection made sure "None" or "Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" was selected. After that, VS started normally.

Answer 4

Run: Devenv /ResetSkipPkgs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241276%28VS.80%29.aspx

or

You are probably looking for the /SafeMode command line switch:

devenv.exe /SafeMode

This will start Visual Studio with all add-ins disabled.

Answer 5

I have got recently VS2017 stucked on start up . so I did this and worked for me : 1 - start cmd as admin : run the following:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE" devenv.exe /SafeMode

2- once VS is started , go to Tools => Extentions and Updates : then uninstall all plug-ins that installed recently ( notice the installed date ) and unnecessary ones)

Answer 6

When it hangs on the splash screen:

It could be that an anti-virus solution is blocking Visual Studio.

Kaspersky Internet Security 16.0.1.445 makes Visual Studio 2015 hang on the splash screen. The older version 16.0.0.614 works fine.