Problems occurred when loading the Microsoft Visual menu

Question

When I opened Visual Studio 2013 today, I got an error. "A problem occurred when loading the Microsoft Visual Menu....", it asked me to reset VS environment via “devenv /resetsetting’’ command and try it again. However it doesn't work.

See the image. It is the latest Visual Studio 2013 edition. I got an update yesterday.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25506703/problems-occurred-when-loading-the-microsoft-visual-menu

Answer 1

The way to resolve this issue is by editing your System Environment Variables. In my case my System Path Variable had a string which was over 2048 characters, which apparently causes random path haywire at unpredictable times. By making sure this is below 2048 characters, it will solve the problem. Make sure you restart explorer.exe after changing the path variables and getting them under 2048 characters.