Visual Studio install hosed up
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All, Something has happened to my Visual Studio installation. I've had it installed and have been using it on my home machine for 6 months or so and it's been working fine. Recently, it started going into a infinite loop doing who knows what and rendering it unusable. I can't load any solutions or create solutions without it doing whatever it does and then it quits responding. TaskManager doesn't say it not responding, but I can't get it to do anything and have to use TaskManager to kill it. I've tried repairing the installation and uninstalling it. In both cases (and all the times I've tried it) the setup program hangs at some point either near the beginning or end of the process. Letting it "think" for over 5 hours had no effect on it. I'm confused as to what to do now. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm going to see if I have a hard-drive problem (bad sectors and such) but if that turns up nothing, do I have any option other than reinstalling the whole machine? Thanks, Mike
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All, Something has happened to my Visual Studio installation. I've had it installed and have been using it on my home machine for 6 months or so and it's been working fine. Recently, it started going into a infinite loop doing who knows what and rendering it unusable. I can't load any solutions or create solutions without it doing whatever it does and then it quits responding. TaskManager doesn't say it not responding, but I can't get it to do anything and have to use TaskManager to kill it. I've tried repairing the installation and uninstalling it. In both cases (and all the times I've tried it) the setup program hangs at some point either near the beginning or end of the process. Letting it "think" for over 5 hours had no effect on it. I'm confused as to what to do now. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm going to see if I have a hard-drive problem (bad sectors and such) but if that turns up nothing, do I have any option other than reinstalling the whole machine? Thanks, Mike
Try posting this in a more appropriate forum. The lounge is used to discuss not programming related material. So before someone rudely tells you about it, re-post to the correct forum please.:)
Fear is the mind killer. So most of you have everything to worry about, now don't you!
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Try posting this in a more appropriate forum. The lounge is used to discuss not programming related material. So before someone rudely tells you about it, re-post to the correct forum please.:)
Fear is the mind killer. So most of you have everything to worry about, now don't you!
Wackatronic wrote: Fear is the mind killer. Eh, I just let it pass through me. :rolleyes:
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All, Something has happened to my Visual Studio installation. I've had it installed and have been using it on my home machine for 6 months or so and it's been working fine. Recently, it started going into a infinite loop doing who knows what and rendering it unusable. I can't load any solutions or create solutions without it doing whatever it does and then it quits responding. TaskManager doesn't say it not responding, but I can't get it to do anything and have to use TaskManager to kill it. I've tried repairing the installation and uninstalling it. In both cases (and all the times I've tried it) the setup program hangs at some point either near the beginning or end of the process. Letting it "think" for over 5 hours had no effect on it. I'm confused as to what to do now. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm going to see if I have a hard-drive problem (bad sectors and such) but if that turns up nothing, do I have any option other than reinstalling the whole machine? Thanks, Mike
I just had the same problem along with GUI anomalies. Hopefully the reboot fixed the 100% CPU problem... John
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All, Something has happened to my Visual Studio installation. I've had it installed and have been using it on my home machine for 6 months or so and it's been working fine. Recently, it started going into a infinite loop doing who knows what and rendering it unusable. I can't load any solutions or create solutions without it doing whatever it does and then it quits responding. TaskManager doesn't say it not responding, but I can't get it to do anything and have to use TaskManager to kill it. I've tried repairing the installation and uninstalling it. In both cases (and all the times I've tried it) the setup program hangs at some point either near the beginning or end of the process. Letting it "think" for over 5 hours had no effect on it. I'm confused as to what to do now. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm going to see if I have a hard-drive problem (bad sectors and such) but if that turns up nothing, do I have any option other than reinstalling the whole machine? Thanks, Mike
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All, Something has happened to my Visual Studio installation. I've had it installed and have been using it on my home machine for 6 months or so and it's been working fine. Recently, it started going into a infinite loop doing who knows what and rendering it unusable. I can't load any solutions or create solutions without it doing whatever it does and then it quits responding. TaskManager doesn't say it not responding, but I can't get it to do anything and have to use TaskManager to kill it. I've tried repairing the installation and uninstalling it. In both cases (and all the times I've tried it) the setup program hangs at some point either near the beginning or end of the process. Letting it "think" for over 5 hours had no effect on it. I'm confused as to what to do now. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm going to see if I have a hard-drive problem (bad sectors and such) but if that turns up nothing, do I have any option other than reinstalling the whole machine? Thanks, Mike
I had behavior similar to this with another application when a hard drive was going bad. It turns out the install/uninstall didn't fix the problem, because the initial bad spot on the drive was in a DLL that the install placed in \windows\system32, and the uninstall didn't remove. I finally went through a couple of wipe-the-drive-and-reinstall cycles, with thorough use of the drive manufacturer's low-level diagnostics in between, before I accurately diagnosed the problem. I initially thought it was just a bad spot on the drive. It turns out the drive electronics were failing, causing the drive to have continuous read failures (with the ensuing retries).
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All, Something has happened to my Visual Studio installation. I've had it installed and have been using it on my home machine for 6 months or so and it's been working fine. Recently, it started going into a infinite loop doing who knows what and rendering it unusable. I can't load any solutions or create solutions without it doing whatever it does and then it quits responding. TaskManager doesn't say it not responding, but I can't get it to do anything and have to use TaskManager to kill it. I've tried repairing the installation and uninstalling it. In both cases (and all the times I've tried it) the setup program hangs at some point either near the beginning or end of the process. Letting it "think" for over 5 hours had no effect on it. I'm confused as to what to do now. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm going to see if I have a hard-drive problem (bad sectors and such) but if that turns up nothing, do I have any option other than reinstalling the whole machine? Thanks, Mike
I had similar problems when I had memory/motherboard issues. A temporary fix was deleting this file: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.x\devenv.xml It only worked once per restart. There are a few directories with files like this that VS.net stores things in and many of them can cause frustrating problems. -Andy Brummer
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I just had the same problem along with GUI anomalies. Hopefully the reboot fixed the 100% CPU problem... John
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Unfortunately no. I'm still trying to figure out what has happened and what to do about it. Hope that your problems went away though. Mike
The reboot fixed the 100% cpu problem as I have been able use it to debug my app today. I am currently only using VC.NET for the remote debugging feature and VC6 to compile. John
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Maybe its time for Format C::~ John Hudson Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted. :omg: http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
JohnJ wrote: Maybe its time for Format C: That's what I'm afraid of. Sigh. It's not too bad doing it other than the time that it will take me to get my system back up and running again. Due to time constraints, it will be in the 1 to 2 weeks from starting that I'll finish it up. Regards, Mike
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I had behavior similar to this with another application when a hard drive was going bad. It turns out the install/uninstall didn't fix the problem, because the initial bad spot on the drive was in a DLL that the install placed in \windows\system32, and the uninstall didn't remove. I finally went through a couple of wipe-the-drive-and-reinstall cycles, with thorough use of the drive manufacturer's low-level diagnostics in between, before I accurately diagnosed the problem. I initially thought it was just a bad spot on the drive. It turns out the drive electronics were failing, causing the drive to have continuous read failures (with the ensuing retries).
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delete this;I need to let Norton Disk Doctor take a look at my drive. I wouldn't suspect the drive since it's under one year old, but you never know. Thanks for sharing your experience. Hopefully it will be easier than your drive failing, but I'm not holding my breath. Regards, Mike
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I had similar problems when I had memory/motherboard issues. A temporary fix was deleting this file: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.x\devenv.xml It only worked once per restart. There are a few directories with files like this that VS.net stores things in and many of them can cause frustrating problems. -Andy Brummer