Visual studio 2010 Errors out on starting “-832” is not a valid value for property “width”

Question

My Visual Studio 2010 was working fine this morning (I run in in XP sP3 under Paralles) I restarted the entire laptop and I started getting this error. I even uninstalled VS

Answer 1

I ran in the same trouble with Visual Studio 2013. I've tried the methods described in the other answers, but the one that worked was modifying in the registers. It seems the Registers have changed since VS 2010.

For VS 2013, you have to modify

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1181729300-1976498228-1094237608-1001\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\MainWindow

Just make sure there's no negative value. I replaced -580 with 100.

Good luck!