Visual Studio 2013 crashing when trying to edit or view code - visual-studio-2013

My Visual Studio has been behaving oddly. It was working fine for over a year and I took a break from it for about a month. Now every time I try to do anything on it VS crashes. I tried uninstalling. Switching to VS2015 and it still crashed, so I switched back to VS2013 and it still crashes. Honestly I don't know what the cause of the issue is as I don't believe I've changed anything.
I just tried starting a new project and writing "hello world" and it crashed before I could finish typing it up.

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