Hello Spindraft,
Thank you for your post.
I suggest that you can create a new and simple project and build /compile it to check if it performs slow.
If yes, I doubt that it is related to your VS.
You could locate to the IDE folder then run these commands to check if it can help:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE
Devenv.exe /SafeMode: Launches the IDE in safe mode loading minimal windows.
Devenv.exe /ResetSettings: Restores the IDE's default settings, optionally resets to the specified VSSettings file.
Devenv.exe /ResetAddin: Removes commands and command UI associated with the specified Add-in.
Devenv.exe /ResetSkipPkgs: Clears all SkipLoading tags added to VSPackages.
Best regards,
Amanda Zhu [MSFT]
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