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

Happened to me with an existing VS instance running, where I disabled an extension (VsChromium). Closing all VS instances solved the error and VS starts normally. Env: VS 2019 Pro, Win 10 x64, running as current user.