VisualStudio not saving Startup Window

Question

Since a few weeks I have had this infuriating problem. Whenever I start VS it opens an empty environment. I tried to change that in Options > Environment > Startup from "Empty environment" to "Start window". After pressing "OK" I restarted VS completely and reopened it. Again: a new empty environment opens.

After reinstalling VS several times now I gave up and want to know, if someone had a similar problem and knows a fix for this problem.

Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 (16.8.3)

Installed Workloads from VS-Installer:

• ASP.NET and web development
• Azure development
• Python development
• .NET desktop development
• Desktop development with C++
• Data storage and processing
• .NET Core cross-platform development

Additional Extensions:

• JetBrains ReSharper 2020.2.4
• Visual Studio Tools for Tizen

*all the extensions are up-to-date

Answer 1

After MONTHS I finally found a solution. I basically tried to uninstall all extensions and discovered that this issue only occurs while ReSharper is installed. I didn't find anything regarding this on the internet, therefore I searched all of the options and I finally found the issue!

If you have the same issue and have ReSharper installed (currently 2020.3.3) open Visual Studio and go to Extensions/ReSharper/Options . A new window will pop up. Then navigate to Environment/Performance Guide and under the group Visual Studio preferences affecting performance you'll find the item Show empty environment at startup . Set it from Fix Silently to Ignore . Click Save and close this window.

Additionally, you have reset the specific Visual Studio option. Therefore open Tools/Options and navigate to Environment/Startup and set the On startup, open: to Start window . Click OK and restart Visual Studio to check if the Start Window now gets displayed correctly.