Visual Studio 2010 very slow, unusable

Question

I\'ve searched for this topic but can\'t seem to find posts that relate exactly to what I am experiencing.

I have a Visual Studio solution that I need to work on, it

Answer 1

Thanks for all the replies.

I've switched to using visual c++ express, it's much quicker, now I can actually do some coding.

Best solution I have for now.

Answer 2

Maybe it's your antivirus. Temporarily disable it and see if VS works better.

Answer 3

Windows 7, x64, 12GB memory, very slow right clicks:

The following steps fixed the problem for me. Right click is now instantaneous. Your Mileage may vary:

I deleted the following directory: %AppData%Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0

and reinstalled these three packages from the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate DVD

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier Application Framework with this command: \WCU\DAC\DACFramework_enu.msi

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier Application Project: \WCU\DAC\DACProjectSystemSetup_enu.msi

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Transact-SQL Language Service: \WCU\DAC\TSqlLanguageService_enu.msi

Answer 4

I have also experienced very slow performance of Visual Studio 2010. After trying various things, I realised that I had enabled Fuslogvw.exe (Assembly Binding Log Viewer, AKA Fusion Log Viewer). It was writing out assembly binding logs to a directory on my hard drive. This was then being scanned by my Anti-Virus on-access-scanning, which was grinding Visual Studio to a halt.

As soon as I modified the configuration of the on-access-scanning to exclude the directory to which the assembly log was written everything went a lot faster. Disabling the Assembly Binding logging obviously had the same effect.

Details on Fuslogvw.exe here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e74a18c4.aspx

An answer on stackoverflow relating to anti-virus scanning here: Slowdown of Microsoft Visual Studio due to different Virus scanner

In summary, my answer is to make sure that Fuslogvw.exe is not enabled and/or exclude its log directory from your on-access virus scanner.

Answer 5

My mouse lags over menus too! For menus that are grayed out, it is fine. But for active menus, the mouse feels sticky when moving over them.

One solution i tried and it works is disable rich user experience and disable hardware acceleration.

Tools -> Options -> Environment (General) -> Visual Experience -> uncheck Use hardware graphics accelerator if available.

I have a good graphic card, but stopping visual studio from using graphics hardware makes my mouse sooo smooth now!