Installation appears to be corrupt [Unsupported] - Visual Studio Code

Question

I have a problem with my Visual Studio Code. I have a popup that appears in the bottom right corner, to inform that my VS Code is damaged. So this week I uninstalled my VS Code from Windows. I then went to the official Visual Studio Code website to get the installation executable. Once done, I do the installation, everything works again correctly, then 5 min after, there is a new popup.

Is there a solution that allows me to fix this?

I have a pc on Windows 10 64bits.

Answer 1

Short answer - try vs-code extension Fix VSCode Checksums.
After installation, open command palette and run 'Fix Checksums: Apply'.
Now, just restart your vs-code.
or
Alternatively, open command palette and write 'Developer: Reload Window'.

That's it.

This fixes the issue for me as well (If you ever have any problems/doubts and wanted to undo what you just did, open command palette and execute 'Fix Checksums: Restore').

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Details - I was having the same issue after installing 'SynthWave 84 theme' and 'Enable Neon Dreams' (that glow effect), as mentioned by answers above.

I searched for it and even though vs-code documentation suggested to re-install the VS Code (as mentioned in the second answer), I was willing to search for another possible solution.
so, I found this section on 'SynthWave 84' extension official page.
thus, just wanted to add another possibility to this question, which may help someone.

I will be following this and if it causes any issue in VS Code updates or anything related, I will provide an update.

JFYI - I am on macOS Catalina, but I am sure it will be the same for windows as well and vs-code September 2020 (version 1.50)

Answer 2

I got this issue after installing "SynthWave 84" extension.

Official documentation is recommending the reinstallation of VSCode!

However, Took the following steps to resolve this issue as I never wanted to reinstall VSCode!

• Uninstall "SynthWave 84" extension and this restarts VSCode
• Restart VSCode manually again by closing all the VSCode projects
• Update VSCode (Click on Settings -> Check for Updates) and this restarts VSCode.

Voila, the issue got resolved without having to reinstall VSCode.