Visual Studio 2022 crashing

Question

I had visual studio 2022 installed and was working fine, suddenly it crashed and refused to open again and keeps crashing.

I also tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it multiple times but no change.

any advice to solve this issue?

Answer 1

Hello @Mohamed Shawky,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Please kindly try following methods:

1. Check if this folder(C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon\OnlineLicensing\VisualStudio) exists, if it exists, try to rename the VisualStudio folder and restart VS. If it doesn’t exist, try to rename this folder => C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon\17.0 and relaunch VS(you may need to log in VS again).
2. Try to run Visual Studio in Safe Mode(search Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2022 in Windows OS search box, launch it and run devenv /SafeMode command).
3. Try to launch Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022, run devenv /log, reproduce this issue, and check if a file called ActivityLog.xml will be generated under %AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_<UniqueID>. If it exists, try to open it and check if there’s any recorded detailed error message.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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