Visual Studio 2015 crashing intermittently

Question

I'm running

Visual Studio Professional 2015

Version 14.0.23107.0.D14REL

Windows 10

It crashes/restarts intermittently, even when I am not working on it but just have it open. I have googled this, there are similar issues but these posts refer to the RTM build and are special cases.

Has anyone heard/experienced this? Any ideas?

TIA

--- EDIT/UPDATE ----

I have more data. Running VS 2015 in SAFE MODE with logging. I'm not doing anything with it, just letting it sit. Eventually it will crash and restart.

I found a pair of errors in my Event Log. Turns out they are always in pairs when this happens. I just can't make out what this means. I think I've googled just about everything on this and find nothing related to what I'm experiencing. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

FIRST ERROR LOG ENTRY

.NET Runtime  EventID 1026
- System 
  - Provider 
   [ Name]  .NET Runtime 
  - EventID 1026 
   [ Qualifiers]  0 
   Level 2 
   Task 0 
   Keywords 0x80000000000000 
  - TimeCreated 
  [ SystemTime]  2015-08-28T22:07:08.000000000Z 
   EventRecordID 14935 
   Channel Application 
   Computer mdad
    Security 
 - EventData 

   Application: devenv.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.UnauthorizedAccessException Stack: at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c__DisplayClass2.<ThrowAsync>b__5(System.Object) at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.WaitCallback_Context(System.Object) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean) at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem() at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch() at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback()  

SECOND ERROR LOG ENTRY

- System 
  - Provider 
   [ Name]  Application Error 
  - EventID 1000 
   [ Qualifiers]  0 
   Level 2 
   Task 100 
   Keywords 0x80000000000000 
  - TimeCreated 
  [ SystemTime]  2015-08-28T22:07:08.000000000Z 
   EventRecordID 14936 
   Channel Application 
   Computer mud-dad 
   Security 
- EventData 
  devenv.exe 
   14.0.23107.0 
   559b7ead 
   KERNELBASE.dll 
   10.0.10240.16384 
   559f3b2a 
   e0434352 
   000b3e28 
   4330 
   01d0e1d57b904f45 
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe 
   C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll 
   9ead8f6c-f423-49a1-aa5a-937c1bfde37e 

---- EDIT/UPDATE ----

The crash/restart of VS2015 occurs every hour from the time I start it. I have gone through all of the settings to look for something that might be set to happen on a schedule. I disabled Auto Recover and Check for Updates but that didn't fix fix it. I was able to anticipate the next crash. At least I have a pattern which should help identifying the problem. If anyone has any ideas on where else I might look, please post.

Answer 1

You can simply try : devenv.exe /resetuserdata instead of reinstalling the whole program