PIO Home page on VSCode immediately closed on opening a project

Hi, when I try to open a PlatformIO project on VSCode Ver. 1.42.0 with PlatformIO Ver 3.0.1/Core 4.1.0 and Python 3.8.1 the PlatformIO Home tab will immediately be closed. I have opened the Developer Tools / Console and there are no messages when this is happening even after activating all log levels. A trace made with Sysinternals Process Monitor shows no errors. I have appended a part the trace at the end of this topic. Reinstallation does not help. This is happening on two computers, one was working until I have reinstalled VSCode with PlatformIO for testing.

---- Process Monitor
“Time of Day”,“Process Name”,“PID”,“Operation”,“Path”,“Result”,“Detail”
“17:36:43,2973095”,“python.exe”,“4176”,“TCP TCPCopy”,“Voyager:8010 -> Voyager:51012”,“SUCCESS”,“Length: 160, seqnum: 0, connid: 0”
“17:36:43,2973221”,“python.exe”,“4176”,“TCP Receive”,“Voyager:8010 -> Voyager:51012”,“SUCCESS”,“Length: 160, seqnum: 0, connid: 0”
“17:36:43,2973559”,“Code.exe”,“15976”,“TCP Send”,“Voyager:51012 -> Voyager:8010”,“SUCCESS”,“Length: 160, startime: 583227, endtime: 583227, seqnum: 0, connid: 0”
“17:36:43,2981775”,“Code.exe”,“15976”,“TCP TCPCopy”,“Voyager:51012 -> Voyager:8010”,“SUCCESS”,“Length: 65, seqnum: 0, connid: 0”
“17:36:43,2981859”,“Code.exe”,“15976”,“TCP Receive”,“Voyager:51012 -> Voyager:8010”,“SUCCESS”,“Length: 65, seqnum: 0, connid: 0”
“17:36:43,2982186”,“python.exe”,“4176”,“TCP Send”,“Voyager:8010 -> Voyager:51012”,“SUCCESS”,“Length: 65, startime: 583227, endtime: 583227, seqnum: 0, connid: 0”
“17:36:43,2983692”,“Code.exe”,“3640”,“TCP TCPCopy”,“Voyager:50927 -> Voyager:8010”,“SUCCESS”,“Length: 188, seqnum: 0, connid: 0”
“17:36:43,2983786”,“Code.exe”,“3640”,“TCP Receive”,“Voyager:50927 -> Voyager:8010”,“SUCCESS”,“Length: 188, seqnum: 0, connid: 0”
“17:36:43,2984002”,“python.exe”,“4176”,“TCP Send”,“Voyager:8010 -> Voyager:50927”,“SUCCESS”,“Length: 188, startime: 583227, endtime: 583227, seqnum: 0, connid: 0”
“17:36:43,3008795”,“Code.exe”,“15976”,“Thread Create”,"",“SUCCESS”,“Thread ID: 1084”
“17:36:43,3022235”,“Code.exe”,“15976”,“Thread Create”,"",“SUCCESS”,“Thread ID: 13984”
“17:36:43,3040013”,“Code.exe”,“15976”,“RegCreateKey”,“HKCU\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections”,“SUCCESS”,“Desired Access: Query Value, Disposition: REG_OPENED_EXISTING_KEY”
“17:36:43,3050738”,“Code.exe”,“15976”,“QueryNameInformationFile”,“C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe”,“SUCCESS”,“Name: \Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe”
“17:36:43,3052159”,“Code.exe”,“14096”,“Thread Exit”,"",“SUCCESS”,“Thread ID: 11244, User Time: 0.0000000, Kernel Time: 0.0000000”
“17:36:43,3052812”,“Code.exe”,“14096”,“Thread Exit”,"",“SUCCESS”,“Thread ID: 6244, User Time: 0.0937500, Kernel Time: 0.0000000”
“17:36:43,3052935”,“Code.exe”,“14096”,“Thread Exit”,"",“SUCCESS”,“Thread ID: 8324, User Time: 1.7968750, Kernel Time: 0.1562500”
“17:36:43,3053177”,“Code.exe”,“14096”,“Thread Exit”,"",“SUCCESS”,“Thread ID: 12692, User Time: 0.0625000, Kernel Time: 0.0000000”
“17:36:43,3053324”,“Code.exe”,“14096”,“Thread Exit”,"",“SUCCESS”,“Thread ID: 5124, User Time: 0.0000000, Kernel Time: 0.0000000”
“17:36:43,3053605”,“Code.exe”,“14096”,“Thread Exit”,"",“SUCCESS”,“Thread ID: 476, User Time: 0.0000000, Kernel Time: 0.0000000”