Sql Server Management Studio closes immediately after startup

Question

Sql Server Management Studio closes in about five seconds after startup. No messages are being displayed (even in a console) and no logs occur in a Windows Event Viewer. I h

Answer 1

According to this article SMSS Immediately closes (a load of work....), it should work again:

1) Uninstalled Visual Studio 2015 with VisualStudioUninstaller (thanks Andrea)

2) Uninstalled Visual Studio 2017 (above uninstaller not help a lot for 2017)

3) Uninstalled Visual Studio 2015 Shell

4) Uninstalled all related SQL apps including (SSMSs).

4) Reinstalled Visual Studio 2017 and SSMS 16