Visual Studio 2017 HRESULT: 0x80070005 / E_ACCESSDENIED on project creation
I had the same error. I solved it by following the procedure : Shutdown all instances of Visual Studio Delete %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_f4938f75\privateregistry.bin file (the ID after 15.0_ may be different per machines) Start VS as normal user all credit for this should go to https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/31188/access-denied-error-1.html