Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio SSMS closes immediately after startup

In this lesson, we are going to fix a known issue with SSMS 18.
It closes immediately after startup.

Directory location
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Platform
File to rename

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Give me solution for SQL error code 3417

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Sir..in my machine "ssms-setup-enu.exe" does not even start.