Tips for speeding up Visual Studio .NET 2003

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mitchell Vincent
  • Start date Start date
M

Mitchell Vincent

I've finally started working in VS.NET most of the day and have a small
problem. It's *slow* on this 2.8 GHz P4 with a gig of RAM.

I only develop in VB.NET, so is there anything I might be able to strip
out or turn off to make things a bit quicker? Even saving a small 3 form
project takes 5 or 10 seconds (which is an eternity to sit here and wait
it seems).

Thanks!
 
Mitchell,

Not sure what is causing it but check your system memory. I'm running it on
P3 and with half the size of RAM you are having and it is working just fine.

Regards,

Sam
 
Mitchell Vincent said:
I've finally started working in VS.NET most of the day and have a small
problem. It's *slow* on this 2.8 GHz P4 with a gig of RAM.

I only develop in VB.NET, so is there anything I might be able to strip
out or turn off to make things a bit quicker? Even saving a small 3 form
project takes 5 or 10 seconds (which is an eternity to sit here and wait
it seems).
Click to expand...

The first thing I do after installing VS.NET is removing the dynamic help
window, however, this will not bring a huge increase in performance.
 
Running a pent4 2.8g with 1gig ram here as well. I know .net2003 was
real slow when I first installed. Would take 15-20 seconds to load.
Remembered that I had been forgetting to defrag the harddrive, did a
diagnostic and found it was 30% fragged lol

defragged and now things fly

btw O&O Defrag is an excellent program http://www.oo-software.com/
 
Chef said:
Running a pent4 2.8g with 1gig ram here as well. I know .net2003 was
real slow when I first installed. Would take 15-20 seconds to load.
Remembered that I had been forgetting to defrag the harddrive, did a
diagnostic and found it was 30% fragged lol

defragged and now things fly

btw O&O Defrag is an excellent program http://www.oo-software.com/
Click to expand...

I use MS's defrag utility on a regular basis so I don't think that is a
problem. Is the O&O defrag *really* worth spending $50 on for a product
that (supposedly) does something that Windows comes with a utility for?
 
Hi Mitchell,

Did the problem persists with other large programs on your machine? If yes,
I think it is a problem with your OS.
Have you loaded any addin for vs.net? Tried to unload them all and restart
them.
So far it is hard to track what is the problem, if the above suggestion did
not work on your side, I think you may try to contact MSPSS via the link
below.
http://support.microsoft.com

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
Mitchell Vincent said:
I use MS's defrag utility on a regular basis so I don't think that is a
problem. Is the O&O defrag *really* worth spending $50 on for a product
that (supposedly) does something that Windows comes with a utility for?
Click to expand...

The thing I like about is it can auto run when system idle. Probably not
really worth 50$, but I charged it to company :)
 
Back
Top