I Recently I installed VS2010 on my desktop. Everything was fine until I started noticing that after each build my computer freezes up(for almost 2-5 minutes). I removed all the extensions and tried still no luck.
Any suggestions ??
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Have you tried starting devenv with the /ResetSettings option?
For spurious waits of a few seconds, I might also look for things like failing network accesses - perhaps with Wireshark and/or Procmon.
The install for VS2010 isn't actual too bad, so an uninstall/reinstall isn't the kind of misery it has been in recent earlier versions.
Will Dean
2010-07-20 17:39:25
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I have already tried uninstalling VS2010. Still no luck.
2010-07-20 17:49:49
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Install procmon, and see what's happening. Do you have anti-virus running? Does the problem go away if you disable it?
chris
2010-07-20 17:40:59
Thanks Chris, procmon really helped to find what DEVENV.exe is doing. Actually during each build, I could see ExpansionsXML.xml file is being processed again and again. I found the old microsoft support http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956549. This has resolved my issue. What I did, First delete the file (C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\1033\ExpansionsXML.xml). Then, go to the registry and delete the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Languages\CodeExpansions. Restart the IDE. I will update more if I see same issue.
2010-07-20 20:01:46
Is procmon a 3rd party tool or something that comes with Windows or VS2010? Link?
Dan Esparza
2010-07-26 22:25:22
No, it's a tool from sysinternals - since bought by Microsoft - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
chris
2010-07-27 00:19:17
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If you 'build' with F5, it could be a problem with Intellitrace. Try disabling it to see if your problem goes away. (Relevant discussion with Microsoft here, still an open issue as of 2010-07-20.)
To disable IntelliTrace, navigate to Tools->Options->IntelliTrace, and uncheck “Enable IntelliTrace”.
Scott Fletcher
2010-07-20 18:17:32
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Actually during each build, I could see ExpansionsXML.xml file is being processed again and again. I found the old microsoft support support.microsoft.com/kb/956549. This has resolved my issue. What I did, First delete the file (C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\1033\ExpansionsXML.xml). Then, go to the registry and delete the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Languages\CodeExpansions. Restart the IDE. I will update more if I see same issue