Visual Studio freezes or hangs on startup

Question

I have been using Visual Studio for a while and found that when I open visual studio and open the project all the files that were open last time remain open.

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Answer 1

When it hangs on the splash screen:

It could be that an anti-virus solution is blocking Visual Studio.

Kaspersky Internet Security 16.0.1.445 makes Visual Studio 2015 hang on the splash screen. The older version 16.0.0.614 works fine.