title: Visual Studio 2012 crash on startup
body: <p>As soon as I open visual studio it goes unresponsive. I have looked at the event viewer, and it gives 3 errors when visual studio crashes in order:</p>
  
  <p>1) </p>
  
  <pre><code>Application: WDExpress.exe
  Framework Version: v4.0.30319
  Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
  Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException
  Stack:
     at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore.&lt;ThrowAsync&gt;b__1(System.Object)
     at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.WaitCallback_Context(System.Object)
     at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
     at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
     at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()
     at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()
     at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>2)</p>
  
  <pre><code>Faulting application name: WDExpress.exe, version: 11.0.60315.1, time stamp: 0x5142b273
  Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18015, time stamp: 0x50b83c8a
  Exception code: 0xe0434352
  Fault offset: 0x0000c41f
  Faulting process id: 0x18f0
  Faulting application start time: 0x01ce445978318661
  Faulting application path: D:\Programs\vs\Common7\IDE\WDExpress.exe
  Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll
  Report Id: bbf0314d-b04c-11e2-a8b8-08002700c410
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>3)</p>
  
  <pre><code>Fault bucket , type 0
  Event Name: CLR20r3
  Response: Not available
  Cab Id: 0
  
  Problem signature:
  P1: wdexpress.exe
  P2: 11.0.60315.1
  P3: 5142b273
  P4: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0
  P5: 11.0.60315.1
  P6: 514298c6
  P7: 941
  P8: 5b
  P9: System.InvalidOperationException
  P10: 
  
  Attached files:
  C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Local\Temp\WER2FF6.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  
  These files may be available here:
  C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_wdexpress.exe_b14ec39a92949f27abbb79e507ed518f9c5afcf_0abe3755
  
  Analysis symbol: 
  Rechecking for solution: 0
  Report Id: bbf0314d-b04c-11e2-a8b8-08002700c410
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have reinstalled at least 8 times, uninstalled using the default uninstaller. Then used revo uninstaller, manually cleaned registry keys, run .net verifier (no errors), repaired the install, tried on another account.  It simply will not work. Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>P.S this is my last resort I've been looking everywhere and am unable to solve it even when others have similar problems</p>