Unable to Create or Open projects (?)

[RichScan]

Up until last Friday (June 29th 2020) everything was working fine. Today I get a hard crash when I try to open, or create, a project using Visual Studio 2019 (Enterprise; up to date). When I try to create even the most simple .NET Framework console app project, VS walks me through the wizard then when it goes to create the project it crashes. The project folder is created but no files are created in the folder. The following was captured using the Windows Event Viewer (Windows Logs + Application). FYI: No other developer here is experiencing this issue.

-- EVENT LOG: Critical Error #1 --

Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 16.6.30204.135, time stamp: 0x5ed98023
Faulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.8.4180.0, time stamp: 0x5e7d1ed7
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000c8b8e
Faulting process id: 0x2adc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d64e69b5cf6634
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\clr.dll
Report Id: 7fa86a80-4757-464c-937e-9c9c0c92f37a
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:


-- EVENT LOG: Critical Error #2 --

Application: devenv.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an internal error in the .NET Runtime at IP 6E2F8B8E (6E230000) with exit code 80131506.

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