A fatal error was encountered. The library 'hostpolicy.dll' required to execute the application was not found

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I tried internet search on this issue and it is very common with many suggestions. The problem started with an update to VS2019 in which I paused because my projects in VSCode were breaking.I did a system restore and when I tried to start VSCode I got a message saying my installation was corrupt. So I reinstalled to the latest version and now get this error.

A fatal error was encountered. The library 'hostpolicy.dll' required to execute the application was not found...

I found 3 extensions that needed updating so I do so but did not fix this problem. Do not know if I need to update the .Net Core since it looks like a version mismatch. It seems these updates are wreckless since they always cause thing to go wrong.s

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If you are facing this problem, it means you are using Windows.

This official microsoft live share github page explains how to fix the issue: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/102

Especially, check out this comment: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/102#issuecomment-366509735

  • make vscode is up to date
  • uninstall live share from vscode
  • close vscode completely
  • restart vscode as administrator
  • reinstall live share

I should add:

  • close completely vscode and restart it
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