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What actually does Visual Studio do when it first starts up?


Recently I had to reinstall my Visual Studio 2022 and came across this step:

Visual Studio Start Up Screen

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It has been 30 minutes since it said 'This may take "a few" minutes'. This gets me wondering, what exactly does Visual Studio do when I first start them up? Doesn't it just move some files and setup configurations? How could it take so long?

I have been waiting for at least 30 minutes by now. I've seen people who had waited longer, some even had to wait for hours.


Solution

  • So after 3 hours I decided to kill the process using task manager. VS seems to work without any problems after a soft restart.