How to fix Visual Studio 2022 from crashing on startup?

William.S 20 Reputation points
2024-07-04T23:57:16.39+00:00

I downloaded Visual Studio 2022 yesterday and installed the .NET component for a uni course. Today when I went to open VS2022 it crashed on start-up. I have repaired the program and it worked well once, then after I had saved/closed the program it began crashing any time I tried to reopen it. I have also tried restarting my pc, reinstalling Visual Studio, and running the application as admin. I have 20GB of storage left so I don't think its a problem with that. My laptop is running a Core i5-10200H, 8GB RAM, and a GTX 1650 on Windows 11 Home.

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  1. Tianyu Sun-MSFT 28,951 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2024-07-05T10:01:01.1366667+00:00

    Hi @William.S,

    Please try to rename/remove this "ComponentModelCache" folder C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_<InstanceID>\ComponentModelCache, restart VS and check if it works.

    Besides, I notice that there’s a similar issue which has been reported on our Developer Community and is currently Under Consideration. It’s possible that this is a potential issue. Best Regards,

    Tianyu

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