visual studio 05

[Nathan Franklin]

Hello I have visual studio 2005,

I am currently working on a big project in the program. My problem is visual
studio is running very very very slow. It frequently locks up for up to 50
seconds. I can be doing anything... Saving a File, switching from Designer
to code, pressing a full stop to bring up intellisense. almost anything can
cause this, and it happens at least once every 4 minutes... (imageine my
productivity!!)

I am very frustrated because I cant figure this out. I am writing my code
with VB.NET

Could anyone please shed some light.

Thanks

Nathan

 

[pvdg42]

Hello I have visual studio 2005,

I am currently working on a big project in the program. My problem is
visual studio is running very very very slow. It frequently locks up for
up to 50 seconds. I can be doing anything... Saving a File, switching from
Designer to code, pressing a full stop to bring up intellisense. almost
anything can cause this, and it happens at least once every 4 minutes...
(imageine my productivity!!)

I am very frustrated because I cant figure this out. I am writing my code
with VB.NET

Could anyone please shed some light.

Thanks

Nathan

We need information from you.
Please describe the hardware platform you are using, particularly CPU and
amount of memory, but a complete description would be helpful.

 

[Nathan Franklin]

Hello,

sorry I totally forgot about that

I am running a P M 1.6 (laptop) (2mb cache) 760MB ram 40gb (4200RPM).

Nathan

 

[pvdg42]

Hello,

sorry I totally forgot about that

I am running a P M 1.6 (laptop) (2mb cache) 760MB ram 40gb (4200RPM).

Nathan

Are you seeing hard drive activity during these pauses? Does your laptop
video "share" some of the main memory? I ask because limited memory and a
slow hard drive (4200 RPM) could be contributing factors with a large
project.
I realize the advertised *minimum* memory requirement for VS 2005 is 256
meg, but to run VS 2005 efficiently, especially with large multi-project
solutions, you really need a minimum of 1 GB of main memory.

 

[Nathan Franklin]

hello,

today I just bought an extra gig of ram. its a little faster but still dog
slow! some times there is alot of hd activity and sometimes there is nothing
yet it still locks up.... im going out of my mind! I dont know what to
do....

any other ideas?

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Nathan,

It can be of course that your laptob was already slow running.

A problem I know are virusscanners with laptobs. Did you already tried (read
for trying not forever) what happens when you put your virusscanner off.

Just a thought,

Cor