Package management initialization failed: Access Denied Error when opening Visual Studio 2017

Question

I\'m getting the following error when opening VS 2017 on Windows 7 64-bit:

Package management initialization failed: Access Denied.

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Answer 1

I had this issue after installing SSDT for VS 2017 in a new vs instance. So it's like I have two visual studio in my machine. To fix that, I uninstalled the SSDT package, restart my machine and reinstall it on the initial installed visual studio instance.