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How To Fix VS Code Not Responding Issue | VS Code Slow Startup Fix | Window Is Not Responding Error
Feb 28, 2026
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Uh hello guys. In this video, I'll show
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you some potential fixes to actually
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solve the problem. If your VS code is
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slow in starting up or if it is not
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responding while you actually work or
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code inside it or the window is not
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responding or if any of the errors are
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coming. So you can watch this video. I
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will show you some potential fixes. So
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first of all if your VS code is not
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responding first of all close that and
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go to task manager and also close in the
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background if you are running VS code
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you just need to search for code related
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process. So if you basically launch VS
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code inside task manager
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most of the time this process will come
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which is code.
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So you need to basically close all the
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processes. So these are background
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process which run. So just restart your
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VS code by right-clicking it and click
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on end task. So this will completely
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turn off VS code.
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After that you can relaunch the VS code
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and try to see if the problem is solved.
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If the problem is not solved then there
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is another thing that you can do. You
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can go to command prompt
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and uh you can disable extensions all
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the extensions and launch VS code and
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for that there is a command here which
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you can do which is code dash disable
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dash extensions. This command will
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actually disable all the extensions that
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you have installed inside VS code and
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launch the VS code
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like this. So now this instance of VS
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code all the extensions will be disabled
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and you can actually find out which
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extension is creating the problem.
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So all the extensions will be disabled
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as you will see.
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So in this easy way this command lets
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you do that. So if the VS code is
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working properly then you need to
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actually go to extensions one by one
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actually see disable this extension all
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the extension that you have installed
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one by one do that and just find out
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which extension is creating the problem.
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So you can do that. The third fix is
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that you can actually open this
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directory which is first of all
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go to C directory and then go to users
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directory
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inside that whatever is your username go
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to that and then there is a folder
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called as app data go to that folder and
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then inside that we have the roaming
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folder and inside that we have this code
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folder.
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So here all the VS code related files
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are present. So go into this folder and
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inside this folder you will find out
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three folders. First of all this folder
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catch. So it stores all the catch
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related files. So first of all delete
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this folder
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and also delete this folder and that
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which is catch data.
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So just right click delete this as well.
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And also there is a third folder which
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is GPU catch.
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This stores all the GPU related files
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also select all this and delete this as
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well. So delete all these three folders
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and reopen VS code
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and also there is uh workspace storage
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folder as well. So if you search for
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this workspace
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I think it's related inside
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there will be a user folder. Yeah. So go
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into the user folder and inside this
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there will be this workspace
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storage folder. So also delete this as
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well all the files which are there. This
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just contains the catching
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related files related to VS code. So
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once you delete this restart your VS
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code. This will fix corrupted workspace
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issues. And then there is another fix
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you can do which is disable your GPU.
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For that there is this command here
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which you can write
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code d- disable
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GPU. So if you are using a graphical
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processing unit, a graphics card, you
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can disable this uh VS code by this
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command and then run that. So if this
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works then you can actually
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you can open settings search hardware
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acceleration and disable it permanently
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and if it doesn't also work you can
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actually update your VS code
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to help section and simply check this
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option check for updates and if any sort
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of new update is there inside VS code
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you can download that and
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and install that. And if also any
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antivirus is running inside your
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computer, then you can actually disable
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that antivirus
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potentially to actually see if the issue
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is solved or not.
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And if all these solutions doesn't work
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then there is a last solution that you
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can do is that you can un uninstall VS
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code completely and re reinstall.
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So
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basically wherever VS code is installed.
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So just search VS code right click open
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file location
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again open file location. So right here
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the VS code exe file is present. So here
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also you will see this uninstall. Simply
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run that setup. So are you sure you want
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to completely remove VS code? Simply
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click yes. So this will uninstall
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everything and then you can install a
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fresh copy of VS code. So
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you can search VS code download. So
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simply download a fresh copy and this
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will 100% will fix your problem because
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you will start from scratch.
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So you can actually apply these
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solutions one by one. So if your problem
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is solved just comment which solution
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fix your problem and also like the video
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