VS Code v[Latest Version Number] Crashing - "The window is not responding" on Windows after update, rolling back to 1.96 fixes it.

[pravinheroku]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

• VS Code Version: VS Code v[Latest Version Number] Crashing - "The window is not responding" on Windows after update, rolling back to 1.96 fixes it.
• OS Version: windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. VS Code v[Latest Version Number] Crashing - "The window is not responding" on Windows after update, rolling back to 1.96 fixes it.
2. VS Code v[Latest Version Number] Crashing - "The window is not responding" on Windows after update, rolling back to 1.96 fixes it.

[vs-code-engineering]

Thanks for creating this issue! It looks like you may be using an old version of VS Code, the latest stable release is 1.97.0. Please try upgrading to the latest version and checking whether this issue remains.

Happy Coding!

[gaganxdhiman]

im using the latest version of it [1.97.0] and whenever i used to open the terminal , it freezes the whole vs code and the terminal im using latest version of it.

[tamuratak]

Duplicate of #239838. It would be helpful to give reproducible steps and settings at #239838.

[gjsjohnmurray]

/duplicate

Thanks @tamuratak

[vs-code-engineering]

Thanks for creating this issue! We figured it's covering the same as another one we already have. Thus, we closed this one as a duplicate. You can search for similar existing issues. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

[mmwangilewis]

Use the following steps to resolve the issue.

• open vs code

• press ctrl+shift+p

• search for preference configure runtime arguments

• add this line to argv. json

         "disable-hardware-acceleration": true
  

then restart vs code. The issue will be solved