Creating new blank project freezes at 80%

This problem is because the vcvars.bat file fails if your path env variable has any path segments with double quotes in it.

so if your PATH variable looks like this:

PATH="c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE"

the build will fail

just take the double quotes out (they aren’t needed):

PATH=c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE