Cannot open Visual Studio – throw error ‘cannot run when setup is in progress’I had this problem with Visual Studio 2017. There were processes in Task Manager named
After VSIX Auto Updater stopped showing up in Task Manager, it had applied all of it’s background updates and I was able to launch Visual Studio.
I wouldn’t recommend killing these processes in the middle of them installing updates, like other answers to this question suggest. Just wait until they finish by watching Task Manager.
VSIXAutoUpdate.exe. I watched Task Manager and they were spawning and despawning. A few times, a Visual Studio 2017 process would spawn and despawn.After VSIX Auto Updater stopped showing up in Task Manager, it had applied all of it’s background updates and I was able to launch Visual Studio.
I wouldn’t recommend killing these processes in the middle of them installing updates, like other answers to this question suggest. Just wait until they finish by watching Task Manager.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\ServiceHub\Services\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Service\VSIXConfigurationUpdater.exe