can't start visual studio profiler

Question

I have VS 2010 Ultimate. I have created empty win32 console solution and replaced it\'s cpp file with http://pastebin.com/EQJKJK6T I tried to perform CPU Sampling profiling.

Answer 1

I had this issue, yet bizarrely it only affected one Visual Studio solution. Using the profiler with another Visual Studio solution worked fine.

I tried:

• disabling Symantec
• uninstalling VMware Player (as mentioned above)

but neither worked.

In the end I amended the registry, setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysPlant\Start to 4 and rebooted, it then started working.