Visual Studio Community 2022 won't launch (Could not start visual studio due to an error. StreamJsonRpc.RemotelnvocationException: Configuration system failed to initialize (Errorkind: Error Result: 80131500))

Question

This problem began when I tried to launch VS Community after shutting off my PC the previous night. VS Would launch and then use a lot of power (as seen on task manager) then crash. I tried repairing the installation twice, reinstalling, booting in safe mode, and other debugging methods (including renaming and deleting the contents of C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon\OnlineLicensing) but to no avail. Now unlike when this problem began VS won't even launch in the first place, giving an error (pic attached). I have attatched the most recent log file generated: ActivityLog.xml. My guess is that some file(s) corrupted because I didn't close VS before shutting off my pc. Doing devenv.exe /resetsettings makes it run for a second before ultimately crashing, just as it did this afternoon when I first noticed the issue

Answer 1

Hi @Yahtzee Hearth ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! 

Could you find the CommonExtensions, Extensions and PrivateAssemblies folders under the path: d:\program files\vs\common7\ide?

If you can find them, please try to rename these folders, and repair your VS in Visual Studio Installer to check it again. 

If it doesn’t work, I recommend you do a clean uninstallation and retry the installation:

1. Manually delete any leftover install and cache folder you previously installed to:

%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio

%programdata%\Microsoft\visualstudio\packages

%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio

2. Delete the setup registry key (Please backup.), which was set when you first installed (Maybe there is only one key, please check one by one.):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup

3. Download the new bootstrapper file from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ and run it as administrator. 

Sincerely,

Anna

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