Visual Studio 2010 - Is it slow for anyone else?

Question

I've read a lot of stuff about VS2010 being much more performant than VS2008. When I've finally installed it, I found that it, in fact, is much slower (save for the Add References dialog).

For instance, Silverlight projects take twice as long to load, the startup of the IDE itself is much slower, etc...

Am I missing something here or is it like this for everyone?

Specs: WinXP-32bit, 3.5GB RAM, 7200RPM drive, NVIDIA QUadro NVS 285 128MB, Cure2Duo E4400 @ 2GHz, PAE enabled.

Answer 1

Try disabling, the hardware acceleration for WPF and let WPF render on software. This setting has helped me to load VS with my project almost 200% faster even after machine boot. This also helped me to get rid of the Splash screen at the beginning of VS 2010 start.

Go to Tools | Options, then select Environment | General. Then uncheck "Automatically adjust visual experience..." and "Use hardware graphics acceleration..."

One more tip. Try forcing the garbage collection for the IDE by using Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12. I have found this to be helpful....

This will be very helpful if you are flipping between lot of projects and also if you have lot of IDE's open for different projects.

And lastly if you have any extensions, try disabling the ones that are not used all times. Disabling codemaid helped me save a lot of time while typing and switching between code pages.