Life goes on, but VSCode doesn't

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So today, I had my usual cup of tea, sat down at my PIO dev machine (Win 10) to run VSCode/ PIO and lo and behold, it does not run. I’ve done a restart and also tried running VSCode as admin. It just does not fire up.
Task manager doesn’t show anything useful.

any thoughts?

thanks,
Paul

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Personally, the first thing I would try is to delete C:\Users\<username>\.vscode and see if this help.

If VS Code still not running, the next thing would be repeat the step above & reinstall VS Code.

What have you tried so far?

Windows 10 is EOL in August this year… time to update.

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thanks for suggestions, I’ll try that. I haven’t tried anything, as I wouldn’t know what to look for. I looked in windows Control Panel to check that VSCode was still installed. I use it every day…

According to copilot, i’ll lose lots of config stuff if I delete .vscode, so I’ll rename it instead.
I’ll report back.

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thanks, reinstalling VSCode and PIO worked. It’s a sledge hammer approach though, I’m glad I don’t write code like that. Makes me nervous about my IDE…