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Visual Studio 2012 won't start or it keeps crashing

Problem : I nstalled VS2012 Premium from our MSDN subscription and it was working fine the first couple of days but then I installed a few extensions I can't now start VS2012 and it gives the error Error Msg: Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 11.0.50727.1, time stamp: 0x5011ecaa Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x000ce6c3 Faulting process id: 0xee8 Faulting application start time: 0x01cd89bb777fc1dd Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll OS  :  WIndows 7 64 bit Solution : 1.) Remove the key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers] . VS2012 loading but then crashing before I could do anything else (error in C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll ) Then  remove: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\

SQL server 2008 R2 – Silent installation for the SSMS

SSMS Silent Install instructions C:\[SQLImagesPath]\setup.exe /ACTION=INSTALL /QUIET /FEATURES=CONN,BC,SSMS

WSUS role not working

Checking for supported version of WSUS (min WSUS 3.0 SP2 + KB2720211 + KB2734608 Add this below KB article as well after Ading WSUS ROle.

WSUS: The Update Could Not Be Found

I was re-installing the WSUS role on our security server (W2008 R2) today and hit this error as soon as the installation started: “The  update could not be found ”. It’s a bit of a weird one for a role installation.  I hadn’t the foggiest so I did a quick search and found the Solution : Delete the “WindowsUpdate” key from the registry at HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows.  I’d recommend you export this to a .reg file to be safe. Restart the Windows Update service. Now you can go ahead and install WSUS.