Receiving error message 'Extension host terminated unexpectedly.' in Visual Studio Code

Question

I have been looking around and I haven\'t found any answers to my issue.
I keep getting this error \"Extension host terminated unexpectedly.\" and I

Answer 1

Linking my github issue on Microsoft/vscode as reference.
It ended up being one of the base extensions that runs on startup that was the root of the problem.

In my case the git in extensions folder was causing it.
"git.enabled": false was not doing the trick so I had to remove the git folder altogether for the error to disappear.