Visual Studio 2017 very slow to start

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I have Visual Studio Professional 2017 installed. For a long time I had no problem, but over the last month or so, from the time I click on the icon to the point where the IDE actually comes up is over a minute (as much as a minute and a half). In ActivityLog.xml I see the same "warning" repeated for several values under the same key over and over until it apparently gives up and starts the IDE:

<entry>
<record>405</record>
<time>2020/01/29 20:32:49.557</time>
<type>Warning</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>PkgDef encountered data collision in section &apos;HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_707d46c0_Config\RuntimeConfiguration\dependentAssembly\codeBase\{EED74A63-86F8-416F-B87B-81F5211E73FC}&apos; for value &apos;CodeBase&apos;</description>
</entry>

I've seen older questions posted that were similar, but not on point. Additionally, the most recent I found was from 2015 and references VS 2015. I'd like to know what I can do to resolve this.

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