vscode: The window terminated unexpectedly

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Don’t know, but I guess, that Remote Extension needs to be active.

VS Code Version: 1.76.0 and some before
OS Version: Client: Windows / Server: Linux

Steps to Reproduce:

Have VS Code open and change to an external terminal.
Do something in the external terminal, which changes something in the folder or sub-folder (e.g. add a file), which is opened by VS Code.

On a lot of occasions (however not always) VS Code crashes with the message box: “The window terminated unexpectedly (reason: ‘crashed’, code: -36861).” This bug is already there for some VS Code versions.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created a year ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 36 (2 by maintainers)

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VSCode crash

I don’t know if this is the same issue but after installing the latest update (1.76 -> 1.76.1 I think), VSCode won’t open at all and gives me this dialog (Windows 10). No matter what I try I can’t get passed this. I will have to try reinstalling.

jabamaus on Mar 6, 2023

I was finally able to fix the issue, follow these steps:

Open file location (right-click on VSCode shortcut and select open file location)
Rename code.exe to code1.exe
Open code1.exe and you should be able to open VSCode this time.

You can also open VSCode from the shortcut icon as well.

mirwaisbilal on Jul 12, 2023

I have similar issue. Version 1.78.1 OS: Windows

tjablonski on May 11, 2023

I had this issue on Mac and none of the solutions were working so I simply deleted this folder ~/Library/Application Support/Code and now everything works back to normal

whoiscarlo on Oct 19, 2023

NikolasRoufas on Jun 8, 2023

I thought this was my problem, but I found out that I had a large file open and Code was holding onto its cached copy in another workspace and kept trying to open it on every launch. I deleted the backup file from ~/Library/Application Support/Code/Backups and that fixed it.

ahusseini on Apr 27, 2023

I also did what @whoiscarlo suggested. I found the instructions here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/uninstall#_clean-uninstall

ahosgood on Oct 19, 2023

@mirwaisbilal is correct! Once I went to my installation folder \AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code and changed it to Code1.exe it worked! Thank you.

Sudhar287 on Jul 12, 2023

having the same issue with v1.79 every time I launch it as admin, which I need to debug a program that runs as admin.

Varun-garg on Jun 13, 2023