Visual Studio performance under Windows 7 64 bit

Question

I recently moved from Vista 32 bits to Windows 7 64 bits, and I notice Visual Studio 2008 is slower when it comes to initialising certain things, like the delay when you first use the toolbox is longer, opening a project for the 1st time is longer etc. For the rest it runs smoothly. For the record, I'm using a fairly new dual core pc with 3 GB ram.

Does anyone else experience this? Any solutions maybe?

Answer 1

I noticed a performance increase when moved VS to Win 7 64bit (same machine). Some of the issues you point out might be related to your project building the intellisense db as well as help files installed (MSDN or additional MShelp versoin 2).

If it's real burning issue, use Process Monitor to see if VS is spending extra time loading/looking for things.