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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:15:38+00:00

I just installed visual studio 2010 on my win7 32 bit computer and i

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I just installed visual studio 2010 on my win7 32 bit computer and i get the following message when I start it:

“the application data folder for visual studio cannot be created”

I had this same version of visual studio on my xp sp3 computer and it worked fine.
I googled for various solutions but nothing worked.
I tried to run:

"%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup

and to edit the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders] AppData entry (but it was already okay). I tried to run as administrator.

Is there any other fix to this problem?

ps: after I installed visaul studio there was no desktop shortcut, the start menu folder was empty until I added premmisions for myself (I’m already admin…) and after that the start menu shortcit had no icon and didn’t work so I had to run visual studion from the installation folders devenv.exe.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It sounds like Visual Studio is having problems creating the following folder

    %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio

    Or one of the sub folders it creates for storing data (10.0 for example). I would first try accessing that directory location or it’s parent and make sure that your account has the proper permissions to create folders in that location.

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