Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense slows down everything

Question

I have the issue with Visual Studio 2010, after a while, running exceptionally slowly and slowing everything else down with it. I'm meaning:

• Most other open windows become unresponsive
• Typing is delayed
• Build times increase 10-fold
• Saving takes forever

I am sure this is an Intellisense issue; disabling it solves everything, and when this happens in Task Manager I find a couple of vcpkgsrv.exe (the Intellisense thing) running at about 160,000K memory (This is about the same as an older, less graphical intensive games). However, I would like to run Intellisense. The only way I have of solving this at the moment is to abort these processes when they slow stuff down.

I have tried getting the patch and think it is installed, because I cannot install it again.

EDIT: I'm running Windows XP, with VSC++ Express. I have 2GB RAM, and a dual core 3.2GHz Processor. Anyone help please?

Answer 1

I had the same problem with my Windows XP machine. After a long search I found a solution so I'll post it back here since it was the first result I got on google.

Install Windows Automation API update for Windows XP (KB971513).

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB971513