Visual Studio 2010 crashes with “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation”

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• Thanks for this pointer! It worked for me.
  

• I had this issue and the root cause was that system32 had been knocked off the path. Don't know if this is caused by the update you mentioned above, but simply adding system32 back to the path variable resolved the issue for me.
  

• "I had this issue and the root cause was that system32 had been knocked off the path. Don't know if this is caused by the update you mentioned above, but simply adding system32 back to the path variable resolved the issue for me."
  
  Thanks!
  

• I had this same issue when installing Intel Parallel Studio on a computer with VS2010 Pro already installed. Apparently this can be cause by any 3rd party product that revises the env-var "path". It is not limited to VS Update.
  

• I ran into this same issue and just reinstalled the Service Pack and now I have many more error messages popping up. :(
  

• re: Visual Studio 2010 crashes with “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation”
  

• It arrived to my VS2010 with SP1 after installing SQL Server Express service Pack 1 (x64) on a W7 Ultimate machine
  

• Installing VS 2010 SP1 fixed the issue, but this problem has started coming again. Any clues?
  
  I read that Brian has re-applied SP1 and he is getting even more errors now. Plz help.
  

• I had multiple %STUDIO_LIB_VC10% items in my path variable. I have left only one and the problem disappeared.
  

• Adding System32 back to the environmental variables fixed the issue for me. Thanks!