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

I have got recently VS2017 stucked on start up . so I did this and worked for me : 1 - start cmd as admin : run the following:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE" devenv.exe /SafeMode

2- once VS is started , go to Tools => Extentions and Updates : then uninstall all plug-ins that installed recently ( notice the installed date ) and unnecessary ones)