vcsexpress.exe keeps crashing module gdiplus.dll

Hi I am having some issues with Visual C# 2010 Express. When I open the IDE it will randomly crash (it can crash after a few seconds or after a few minutes). It doesn't make any difference if I create a new project or open an existing one.

This is causing some slight inconvenience - mainly because I cannot rely on the undo feature.

Here are the error report details:

AppName: vcsexpress.exe      AppVer: 10.0.40219.1     AppStamp:4d5f2a6b
ModName: gdiplus.dll      ModVer: 5.2.6002.22791      ModStamp:4f33e9a6
fDebug: 0       Offset: 000e0619

This has only started happening after another issue was resolved relating to windows updates not able to check for updates 0x80091007 (the resolution to this was to uninstall the .Net Framework Client Profile 4.0 - even though I did reinstall it at a later date). Other .Net 4 programs are still working ok.

As a matter of fact I was using Visual C# 2008 and I saw the same issue after doing this which is why I upgraded to 2010 but it seems this did not fix it.

I have tried running these commands (but they did not help):

VCSExpress.exe /Resetsettings

VCSExpress.exe /ResetSkipPkgs

VCSExpress.exe /Safemode

Does anyone have any other suggestions?