Visual Studio - "browse files" window not responding in any case + closes Visual Studio
Hello I'm using Visual Studio 2022 professsional.
I have problem with all things which uses window for "browsing files" to select e.g. location of the new project or adding existing project to solution.
The window typically looks like you want to save something in notepad as "save as".
Issue is that the window is not responding from the beginning after it pop ups, and after couple of seconds it closes the whole Visual Studio without any error message.
What I've tried:
- delete things related to VS from
%appdata%,
- update the Visual Studio,
- update & disable extensions in VS,
- trying to repair the installation from the VS Installer,
- reinstall Visual Studio.
Nothing helps and I'm irritated, because I can't do anything now 😦14 Replies
check the windows events
or also the vs log file eventually
Attach another instance of visual studio to the instance failing, sometimes you can get exceptional information.
In event logs I've got(sorry for photo but different laptop):
So 3rd time reinstalled and nothing helped. Also tried to uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable.
Run as administrator
Do you get the same error?
Can't run as an admin, because it's assigned to the company account.
I mean its' an access issue, so... do you have access to the folder?
To which one?
Whatever directory you're looking at?
yeah, with acces to the directory there is no problem,
I'm not sure if it's related to our AV in our company...
Could be av, I was thinking that too, could possibly be gpo too
Tested with security guy, he disabled the AV but nothing changed. Mysterious thing that it work on Admin Account. But I can't use it here cuz license is applied to the normal one.
when dev machines are locked down too much it creates weird problems