p.s. I've been trying to get this going. I haven't seen an error posted on google or something similar. I'm leaving on a trip sunday and would like my IDE for something to do. I've also done the resetuserdata and it shows the choose your language, but it won't show the window after that. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tyler Littlefield To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:46 AM Subject: help with visual studio Hello list, When I try to start up Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, it loads devenv.exe, but it's not showing a window. Any ideas on what may be causing the issue? I don't see anything in event log, is there an error log somewhere possibly?