I had an odd performance-related issue today. My Microsoft Visual Studio seemed to be taking far too long to perform even the simplest of operations. I Googled around and tried a few ideas that people had such as disabling add-ins or clearing Visual Studio’s recent projects list but those suggestions didn’t seem to solve the problem. I remembered that the Windows SysInternals website had a tool called Process Monitor that would sniff registry and file accesses by any running program. It seemed to me that Visual Studio was up to something and Process Monitor should help me figure out what it was. I downloaded the most recent version, and after fiddling around a bit with its display filters, ran it and to my horror, I saw that Visual Studio was so slow because it was accessing the more than 10,000 folders in C:\Users\krintoul\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebSiteCache on most IDE operations. I’m not sure why there were that many folders and moreover, wasn’t sure what Visual Studio was doing with them, but after I zipped those folders up and moved them somewhere else, Visual Studio’s performance improved tremendously.
The Windows SysInternals website has a number of other useful utilities for network management, security, system information and more. Check it out. I’m sure you’ll find something of value.
Hi,
Thanks for the tip !
You might want to delete this one also:
C:\Users\krintoul\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files\siteName
Thank you for this EXCELLENT solution. My VS was incredibly slow and I was looking for weeks for an improvement. This works!
Hello,
Thank you for this tips. It’s Excellent. This Solution really work!!!
Ive been searching for this issue for a while as my VS as been running slow ever since install. The problem is I can’t find the AppData folder on my machine?! any help?
Works for some but not for me?
>>>Nick Welsman
you can find the AppData by allowing Hidden files and folder to be shown..
press alt key in any window and go to Tools and go to folder option then go to view and select the 8th line of radio button..
i hope this will help you!
i also had similar slow problem
what i did was >>>
create new project and then copy all form’s content to new project though its risky and could take much time to select and copy content of old form but it worked…
and after creating and copying the form content save it to other name and delete previous project…
be careful with this stuff and create some back up before doing… if its worked then only delete older one..
i hope it work for you too……
Ok my solution is very simpel.
i checked my workingspace ( the location of my projects ) and i realized that i was working on an network storage, where my folders where created.
so i began a new project on my local storage C:\project
and not \\server\project
and its working nicely.
( i know its very dumb but maybe it can help)
Thanks! This worked like a charm…now finally I can be more productive with VS 2008. Personally I think VS 2008 is one of the crappiest product Microsoft ever released.
The only way I know to improve the performance is to disable Edit & Continue option.. Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> Edit & Continue (uncheck the option) & your performance is going to be improved by 200% …
Enjoy
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Go to OPTIONS>ENVIRONMENT..under Visual Experience, untick “Use Hardware Graphics Acceleration If Available” for some weird reason your dev environment should loosen / speed straight up. Works on all or our laptops. If you have any doubt if yours is on go slow, open up some code and drag the scroll bar up and down fast and will see the slider lags massively behind. When you un-tick it…no lag!