New file, new project extremely slow.

Question

"Project context menu>Add>New Item" and "File>New>Project" both take 10 minutes to show the dialog, all the while using an entire core at 100%. Anybody got any ideas why this might be? I have put up with it for along time but its just getting too frustrating..

I am using Windows XP SP3, MSVS 2005 with SP 2, Perforce.
 

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi Billw2009,

Does the CPU occupied by devenv.exe during the process to show the dialog? Please check Task Manager when the issue occurs.
When the problem occurs, check which process occupy the CPU or memory resource, or there is nothing happens (which can also be network or other IO delays).

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Answer 2

Initially I thought that the CPU was being used at 100% by devenv.exe while I was waiting for the new file/project dialog, but I checked again and it is not. I didn't sit and watch it the entire time (hard to look at the same spot for 10-15 minutes straight..) but for the first few minutes at least there was no/low CPU utilization by devenv.exe.

Answer 3

Hi Billw2009,

Based on your description, it seems that the CPU was not occupied by devenv.exe during the process to show the new file/project dialog.
In order to narrow down the causes, you can use Process Monitor tool or some other Windows tool to listen in this behavior. Then you can know what happened during this situation.

Process Monitor tool can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx which can capture the access log.

FYI:
Here are some good tips to improve VS IDE performance.
See: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/17fcdd3c-dde4-46f8-a8b2-8f8928529b35/

Hope this can help you a lot.

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