VS2010 and Windows XP SP3

Question

At home I've been running VS 2010 on a Windows 7 x64 machine without any issues, however at work we recently switched over to VS 2010 running on WinXP SP3 x86 - and I gotta say, the experience is terrible.

There are severe graphical glitches. For ex,

1. Intellisense doesn't quite work. You can start typing and the intellisense dropdown window seems to be working, but the text I'm typing vanishes. I can't see it until I hit the Escape key or refresh the window by say, alt-tabbing to another application and then back again to VS2010

2. If I cut/copy/paste and then move the cursor around by scrolling or using the arrow keys, different parts of the text window don't update themselves properly. I can see patches of a different piece of code where it shouldn't be.

Other team members are also facing the similar issues as well. Is there some patch that I should install? I have already installed the UIA 3 patch ScottGu mentioned in his blog.

Any help would be appreciated.

-Thanks!

Answer 1

Try disabling hardware rendering (if it is enabled):

Uncheck Tools->Options->Environment->General->Enable rich client visual experience. You may also need to uncheck Tools->Options->Environment->General->Automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance.