title: Visual Studio 2015 - Stuck at Splash Screen
body: <p>I am trying to load VS2015 Pro Version (update 3) in Windows 10 and I have been fighting with this for a few days trying different things. When I launch it, I go to the white Visual Studio Splash Screen and it just hangs. This was seen a lot in VS2013 and apparently in VS2015 also but nothing has worked so far. </p>
  
  <p>Anyone have a success story they can share?</p>
  
  <p>Based on various sites, I have tried:
       1.devenv.exe /safemode
       2.devenv.exe /resetskippkgs
       3.devenv.exe /installvstemplates
       4.devenv.exe /resetsettings
       5.devenv.exe /resetuserdata</p>
  
  <p>I was able to run devenv.exe /resetsettings and I get in but I immediately have errors and then Visual Studio Locks and I can't click anything. When I click close on the popups I get an error that VS Stopped Working and I am in VS but it is locked. I am unable to click on anything.</p>
  
  <p>Errors when I do get in:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  CommonAzureToolsPackage did not load correctly.
    Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Connected.ConnectedUser.ConnectedUserPackage  did not load correctly.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My ActivityLog.xml has this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>             &lt;type&gt;Error&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;source&gt;VisualStudio&lt;/source&gt;
              &lt;description&gt;LegacySitePackage failed for package [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Connected.ConnectedUser.ConnectedUserPackage]Source: &amp;apos;Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Connected&amp;apos; Description: Could not load file or assembly &amp;apos;Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Client, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a&amp;apos; or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly &amp;apos;Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Client, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a&amp;apos; or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;File name: &amp;apos;Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Client, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a&amp;apos;&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Connected.Common.CommonUtilities.CheckAndResetUserTokenStorage(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Connected.ConnectedUser.ConnectedUserPackage.Initialize()&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsPackage.SetSite(IServiceProvider sp)&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].&amp;#x000D;&amp;#x000A;&lt;/description&gt;
              &lt;guid&gt;{7F679D93-2EB6-47C9-85EB-F6AD16902662}&lt;/guid&gt;
              &lt;hr&gt;80070002&lt;/hr&gt;
              &lt;errorinfo&gt;&lt;/errorinfo&gt;
            &lt;/entry&gt;
            &lt;entry&gt;
              &lt;record&gt;26&lt;/record&gt;
              &lt;time&gt;2016/10/15 03:38:42.027&lt;/time&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;Error&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;source&gt;VisualStudio&lt;/source&gt;
              &lt;description&gt;SetSite failed for package [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Connected.ConnectedUser.ConnectedUserPackage](null)&lt;/description&gt;
              &lt;guid&gt;{7F679D93-2EB6-47C9-85EB-F6AD16902662}&lt;/guid&gt;
              &lt;hr&gt;80070002&lt;/hr&gt;
              &lt;errorinfo&gt;&lt;/errorinfo&gt;
            &lt;/entry&gt;
            &lt;entry&gt;
              &lt;record&gt;27&lt;/record&gt;
              &lt;time&gt;2016/10/15 03:38:42.042&lt;/time&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;Error&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;source&gt;VisualStudio&lt;/source&gt;
              &lt;description&gt;End package load        [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Connected.ConnectedUser.ConnectedUserPackage]&lt;/description&gt;
              &lt;guid&gt;{7F679D93-2EB6-47C9-85EB-F6AD16902662}&lt;/guid&gt;
              &lt;hr&gt;80070002&lt;/hr&gt;
              &lt;errorinfo&gt;&lt;/errorinfo&gt;
  </code></pre>