White screen while opening visual studio

visual-studio-2015 devenv
nihaljp picture nihaljp · Feb 28, 2016 · Viewed 19.7k times · Source

I installed visual studio 14.0 yesterday and there were some problem before installation itself although I installed it and when I opened it it showed a dll file missing so I downloaded it and after that it showed component missing so I went to devenev(I don't know what is it I did it according to an early question on stack overflow )and I make it run as administrator and it came but it isn't working.

It showed a white colour.please help. I am using Windows 7 32 bit

Answer

Jani picture Jani · Aug 21, 2017

Try from your white screen: Press: Alt+T for Tools, then O for Options and untick the following boxes as shown, click OK and reopen Visual Studio.

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Hope it helps.

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