I recently upgraded my Windows 7 pro version to a Windows 8 pro version. Everything went smoothly, and all programs and services (including SQL server) are working normaly, except for Visual Studio: it stopped working and keeps on displaying the message "Microsoft Visual Studio professional has stopped working ... Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available".
What I cannot do:
- I cannot start the debugger because ... it's calling VS 2012 to debug
- I cannot uninstall VS 2012 (same message)
- I cannot reinstall VS 2012 from its original CD (same message)
- I cannot even do that in safe mode (after forcing the restart of Windows Installer Service)
What I did:
- google for similar problems
- cleaned the registry, etc.
check the application log, noticing this error:
- Faulting application name: vs_professional.exe, version: 11.0.50727.1, time stamp: 0x4fd9f28c
- Faulting module name: igdumd32.dll, version: 9.17.10.2932, time stamp: 0x50c92441
- Exception code: 0xc0000005
- Fault offset: 0x0001a56a
- Faulting process ID: 0x1988
- Faulting application start time: 0x01ce35224e886a32
- Faulting application path: C:\vs\vs_professional.exe
- Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\igdumd32.dll
What I still did not do:
- make a fresh installation of Windows 8 (or 7)
I hope someone could give me an idea ...
PS: Windows 7 was En-US, while Windows 8 is En-En. One would say there is no reason for this to have an impact ... but ... who knows?
