Find and replace all crashes vs2015 and 2013

Question

I try to find and replace everything on the whole solution, but every time I try, it calls a visual studio with a message:

Visual Studio 20 ** stopped working

This only happens when I find and replace everything on the whole solution or on the current project - it will work if I do it in all open files (but I don’t want to go through and open all the files every time I want to do this) , and find the whole solution as a whole, and it will always crash no matter how small this solution is - I tried this in one project file

After examining the various causes of the VS crash, I tried the following without success:

Clear and rebuild solution

Deleting files in %AppData%\..\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ComponentModelCache

Launch in SafeMode

Running VS with logging, but it seems to crash before it logs the cause of the crash - see the errors from log xml in the code snippet below. I think this happens at boot time, and not in the event of a crash, when I tried to download, then close vs and get the same errors. For a full copy of the log check this script

 <entry> <record>235</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:12:57.703</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>PkgDef syntax or I/O error at line 1: Section header: missing closing bracket</description> <hr>80004005 - E_FAIL</hr> <path>The contents of this file have moved.</path> </entry> <entry> <record>236</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:12:57.703</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>Could not process PkgDef file</description> <hr>80004005 - E_FAIL</hr> <path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\VsGraphics\RegisteredDefaultEngines.pkgdef</path> </entry> <entry> <record>242</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:12:57.704</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>PkgDef syntax or I/O error at line 1: Section header: missing closing bracket</description> <hr>80004005 - E_FAIL</hr> <path>The contents of this file have moved.</path> </entry> <entry> <record>243</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:12:57.704</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>Could not process PkgDef file</description> <hr>80004005 - E_FAIL</hr> <path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\VsGraphics\VsGraphicsLaunchHookPkg.pkgdef</path> </entry> <entry> <record>1851</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:01.431</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>Failed to read Version</description> <hr>80070002</hr> </entry> <entry> <record>1852</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:01.431</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>Binding Redirect / CodeBase entry from configuration hive is malformed, ignoring.</description> <hr>80070002</hr> <path>Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0_Config_16920\RuntimeConfiguration\dependentAssembly\bindingRedirection\{BB256134-B73E-47AA-93B4-C49FF433E5B1}</path> </entry> <entry> <record>1885</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:01.817</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>Loading UI library</description> <guid>{480D29DF-2B3D-445F-B055-FE2C74913A83}</guid> <hr>800a006f</hr> <errorinfo>Cannot find the requested resource: 'Menus.ctmenu'.</errorinfo> </entry> <entry> <record>1886</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:01.971</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>Loading UI library</description> <guid>{16CD70AB-0E04-4675-91FA-4910E09EAE56}</guid> <hr>800a006f</hr> <errorinfo>Cannot find the requested resource: 'Commands.ctmenu'.</errorinfo> </entry> <entry> <record>1887</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:02.224</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>Loading UI library</description> <guid>{2FFE45C4-5C73-493C-B187-F2E955FF875E}</guid> <hr>800a006f</hr> <errorinfo>Cannot find the requested resource: 'Menus.ctmenu'.</errorinfo> </entry> <entry> <record>1889</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:02.255</time> <type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>Loading UI library</description> <guid>{2EF1EC52-C8BF-4FE0-8ECE-BA9C0D5D1603}</guid> <hr>800a006f</hr> <errorinfo>Cannot find the requested resource: 'VSMenus.ctmenu'.</errorinfo> </entry> <entry> <record>2291</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:04.454</time> <type>Error</type> <source>Extension Manager</source> <description>Error loading extension: This VSIX does not apply to any product installed on this machine. The problem could be that the VSIX manifest&apos;s format is not recognized, or that the manifest has been corrupted. Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1. </description> <path>C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 14.0\COMMON7\IDE\EXTENSIONS\MICROSOFT\VSGRAPHICS\</path> </entry> <entry> <record>2292</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:04.493</time> <type>Error</type> <source>Extension Manager</source> <description>Error loading extension: This VSIX does not apply to any product installed on this machine. The problem could be that the VSIX manifest&apos;s format is not recognized, or that the manifest has been corrupted. Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1. </description> <path>C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 14.0\COMMON7\IDE\EXTENSIONS\MICROSOFT\VSGRAPHICS\</path> </entry> <entry> <record>2293</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:04.500</time> <type>Error</type> <source>Extension Manager</source> <description>Extension will not be loaded because an extension with the same ID &apos;Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.TeamExplorer.Extensions&apos; is already loaded at C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 14.0\COMMON7\IDE\EXTENSIONS\P04KATKY.ORE\...</description> <path>C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 14.0\COMMON7\IDE\COMMONEXTENSIONS\MICROSOFT\TEAMFOUNDATION\TEAM EXPLORER\</path> </entry> <entry> <record>2294</record> <time>2016/06/03 09:13:04.501</time> <type>Error</type> <source>Extension Manager</source> <description>Extension will not be loaded because an extension with the same ID &apos;148ffa77-d70a-407f-892b-9ee542346862&apos; is already loaded at C:\USERS\NGP\APPDATA\LOCAL\MICROSOFT\VISUALSTUDIO\14.0\EXTENSIONS\O3OMG1QP.PKM\...</description> <path>C:\USERS\NGP\APPDATA\LOCAL\MICROSOFT\VISUALSTUDIO\14.0\EXTENSIONS\JYRLXX0C.PDK\</path> </entry> 

Has anyone had this problem, do you know how to solve it, or is it enough to understand my log files to understand what the problem is?