Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 maxes out core

Question

I recently installed Visual Studio 2013 Professional Update 2 on a Windows 7 virtual machine. I had been running VS 2012 with no problems, but I wanted to upgrade. Everythin

Answer 1

I just had this issue; for me it was resolved by installing Update 5.

The issue started occurring after installing the latest MS Updates; a full list of which are given below (NB: my date format is UK: DD/MM/YYYY; today is 10/12/2015 - some fixes listed were (will be?) allegedly installed on the 11th):

get-hotfix `
| ?{$_.InstalledOn -gt ((get-date).AddDays(-7))} `
| ft Description, HotfixId, InstalledOn -AutoSize

Description     HotfixId  InstalledOn        
-----------     --------  -----------        
Security Update KB3046017 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3060716 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Update          KB3064209 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3071756 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3072305 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3075220 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Update          KB3075851 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3076895 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3076949 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3078071 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3078601 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3079757 08/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3081320 11/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3092601 11/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3100773 11/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3101246 11/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3101722 11/12/2015 00:00:00
Security Update KB3101746 11/12/2015 00:00:00
Update          KB3102810 11/12/2015 00:00:00

Earlier (before using Visual Studio / noticing the issue) I'd uninstalled another hotfix relating to Outlook, which had caused it to open in Safe Mode.