title: Visual Studio can't open project
body: <p>I am having a problem that I have never encountered with visual studio. I can open the window to the project choosing screen, but that is about it. Next, I try and open one of my normal project folders, (that I work on daily) but it just doesn't. The editor is blank, and I can't click anything (meaning when I hover over a button and click nothing happens). In the bottom left corner, all it says is 'Initializing...' </p>
  
  <p>I look up the problem and delete my <code>'.vs'</code> folder, but that does nothing. After finding nothing else, I decide to repair my installation with the installer. After that, I still couldn't open my file, so I tried to create a new project. Even this didn't work. I assume it was stuck on initializing, but it just said 'created project successfully' with the normal non-responsive window.</p>
  
  <p>I decide to completely uninstall and reinstall visual studio, since I don't know what else to do. Once the installation completes, I get stuck on the same 'initializing...' as usual. I even try opening other projects that I have made and get the same initializing in the corner of the screen.</p>
  
  <p>The only thing that I think could have caused this was when I pulled from github. I tried to use visual studio's built-in github interface, and had an extremely hard time getting it working. My friend and I are working on a C++ SFML game, and his reference to it is different then mine. (I know, it is dumb but I am new to c++ and don't know how all of these references work, so I let it be.) I thought visual studio's built in github thing would deal with all of the referencing on different computers, but I was wrong. I had to go back into the project properties and change all the reference locations.</p>
  
  <p>Keep in mind that visual studio works completely fine for my friend, for some reason. Also, I have been using visual studio for years and had no problems opening a file. I just used C# instead of C++.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated, if I don't fix this in time I will probably be forced to switch to CodeBlocks or CLion. (I want to use VS)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot!</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  I tried uninstalling git for windows and restarting, but that didn't do anything. (Thanks for the suggestion)
  I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling one last time, but nothing happened.
  I found this page:
  <a href="https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/94904/vs-2017-153-crashes-opening-any-new-or-existing-pr.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/94904/vs-2017-153-crashes-opening-any-new-or-existing-pr.html</a>
  It is similar to my issue, except there is no message, I just can't do anything. I followed the instructions and made a dump file, so if anyone understands it and needs it, here you go:
  <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/6fm76bfk8782t50/devenv.DMP/file" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.mediafire.com/file/6fm76bfk8782t50/devenv.DMP/file</a></p>
  
  <p>Also, I am using my local SSD and even when I try browsing my files for the solution to open it, it does the same thing.</p>