I am unable to run Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Basic 2008 Express in Windows 7
While Visual Studio was installing, it locked up 3 times because the installer ran the devenv.exe process, I had to use PSKILL to kill the process in order to continue installation, now that it is installed, I am able to start Visual Studio 2008, but as soon as I try and load a project or create a project, devenv.exe locks up again, causing me to have to end the process in task manager. The exact same applies to Visual Basic 2008 Express edition, it locks up too. I have reinstalled Visual Studio many times and even re-installed Windows 7. I have tried running VS with various switches like safe mode and even tried a clean reboot, I tried turning off tool loading...etc...etc.. Here is a link where I tried to get help, that shows everything that I have tried so far: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/032efa8c-5e92-42de-9a02-ea7c123f5d72 Visual Studio installs well on Windows XP and also on my sons computer running Windows 7, just not mine. EDIT: I just ran Process monitor on Visual Studio 2008 and I can see why it quit responding. Here is a picture of a loop that it is stuck in, it just recreates these same lines over and over when it hangs. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/LiquorCooChee/Capture.jpg
October 28th, 2009 10:11am

Hi, Please check the following first: 1. Please boot the system to Clean Boot environment to check how it works: How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7 2. Run the applications with Compatibility Mode or Run as administrator. If the issue persists, I suspect this issue is related to the applications, since we have specific support for them, it is recommended that you go to our MSDN Visual Studio Forum and MSDN Visual Basic Forum for help. Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT
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October 30th, 2009 1:37pm

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