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

Do you see anything in the application event log?

Try these

devenv /ResetSettings 
devenv /installvstemplates 

Delete contents in here:

%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache