Multiple students having issues with RStudio

I have similar issues like this. Opening RStudio IDE stuck/freeze in Posit or RStudio logo, is it PATH problem?
For me, it freezes, but when you attempt to open a second RStudio, it usually opens fine.

Somehow, mine is fixed on its own now, but I don't know exactly how it was solved.

One thing that I uniquely attempt to do is

removing many versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable from my Windows and only installing the relevant one

Try that, uninstall RStudio, reboot, install RStudio, reboot, and then see. :slight_smile: