The response https://stackoverflow.com/a/79421761/20577835 should be the accepted one.

I spent several hours looking for a fix, typing "visual studio code not running" as the more generic definition I could think of...today I saw a comment about trying to run the code using View -> Terminal and that also did not work for me. Then I typed "visual code freezes when opening terminal" and I landed here...

Sometimes is not that the problem has not been detected by others, is that we search it with different wording...I will guide others to the right response.

I am running VS Code in Windows 10, and it was working OK until last week (auto update?).

Thank you Mark!