Visual Studio 2017 crashes after every run into a blue screen of death

Omer Omer 1 Reputation point
2021-04-02T22:29:37.18+00:00

Hello.
I've been using visual studio 2017 for a couple of years now, and occasionally from time to time I would get a Blue Screen of Death error.
Usually the error was something along the lines of "KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE" or "HEAP_CORRUPTION", but there were some other messages.
In the last week, I cannot run VS 2017 without it crashing. I can open the IDE and write code (sometimes), but when I try to run it I crash.
I've tried deleting and reinstalling VS, but I am geniunely clueless, and I don't want to switch into any other IDE.
Is there something I can do about it? Maybe a way to make VS more lightweight, in case that my computer can't handle it? I just don't want to crash in the middle of a coding session.
Thank you very much

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  1. Castorix31 81,721 Reputation points
    2021-04-02T23:47:33.223+00:00

    You should download/test Visual Studio 2019 Community (free)
    I had many problems with VS 2015 (on Windows 10), which are gone with VS 2019

  2. Omer Omer 1 Reputation point
    2021-04-03T08:52:56.623+00:00

    Hey, can anyone please take a look at this?

  3. Dylan Zhu-MSFT 6,406 Reputation points
    2021-04-05T05:16:59.067+00:00

    Hi OmerOmer,

    You can try to run visual studio and close other processes in your machine. And you can try to re-install the installed sdks or frameworks in your system.

    Best Regards, Dylan

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