Unable to sign in or start Visual Studio

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Unable to sign in or start Visual Studio

John 506

I am now unable to sign in or start Visual Studio 2022. Either my computer is taking too long to start or my credentials may have been compromised or rejected. Can anyone help me?

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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,451 Microsoft External Staff

Hello @John,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Is there any error message?

Please try following methods first and let us know if the issue persists.

Disable installed extension or antivirus which may block VS and reboot your machine then run VS as administrator.
Run devenv /SafeMode in Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2022.
Try to repair VS(VS Installer > More > Repair) and reset VS settings(run devenv /ResetSettings in Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2022).
Rename the .IdentityService folder(C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\.IdentityService), and sign in VS again.

Please let us know if you did something before this issue appeared.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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John 506 Reputation points

2023-04-26T03:42:43.12+00:00

I had to uninstall .net maui mobile and asp.net on the installer, while I decided to keep VSTO office developer and C#. It finally worked and resulted in immediate framework reload.
Inform their framework developers that too many installed options will result in an infinite delay in starting the framework.
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,451 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-04-26T08:04:44.5+00:00

Good to know that uninstalling several workloads reduces the delay and makes VS work again. I will help to report your feedback.

Anyway, glad to hear that this issue doesn’t block you anymore.

Feel free to contact us if you have any further concerns.

Have a great day.

Regards,

Tianyu
John 506 Reputation points

2023-04-27T21:57:46.2266667+00:00

I still want to include.net Maui option in Visual Studio. Should I need to revert to Xamarin instead?
John 506 Reputation points

2023-04-27T23:04:06.7766667+00:00

Should I need to download another different framework that will enable me to work with my coding mobile apps?
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,451 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-05-01T07:40:14.3733333+00:00

Hi @John,

Xamarin is also included(optional) in the .NET Multi-platform App UI development workload. Either using .NET Maui or using Xamarin you need to have .NET Multi-platform App UI development workload installed(Installing Xamarin on Windows).

But normally, too many installed options should not result in an infinite delay in starting the VS/project. You may need to prepare/leave enough space for hard disk and memory(RAM). Please kindly check this document: VS 2022 System requirements(Hardware).

Regards,

Tianyu

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