title: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Host.exe taking over
body: <p>My solution consists of a 195 (not a typo) C# MVC application projects w/ some ASPX pages as well running on VS2017 on Windows 10.  Its nothing bleeding edge.  A days ago, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Host.exe" started taking over my machine.</p>
  
  <p>Here is what I have experienced.</p>
  
  <p>The app (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Host.exe) will keep VS2017 from loading a solution I'm trying to open.
  The only fix is to kill the offending exe via Task Manager.</p>
  
  <p>The app will keep VS2017 from exiting when a solution I'm using is open.
  The only fix is to kill the offending exe via Task Manager.</p>
  
  <p>When trying to build, things slow to a grind.
  The only fix is to kill the offending exe via Task Manager.</p>
  
  <p><strong>The offending app will use as many resources as possible.</strong></p>
  
  <p>I've done Win10 an Symantec virus scans on the offender.  Both scans came back negative.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried adjusting the app's settings in task manager so that only one or two cores can be used by the process.  This helps, but sometimes I still have to kill the app to get things working in VS2017.</p>
  
  <p>Whenever I kill the app, it comes back within 30 seconds.</p>
  
  <p>Sometimes, things work fine.  No discernible reason why.</p>
  
  <p>iisreset does nothing.</p>
  
  <p>I resorted to renaming the EXE file, that way it couldn't attack me again.</p>
  
  <p>That seems to work, but its a hack.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know what the root cause is, and how to resolve it?</p>