Loading Help or clicking F1 in Visual Studio is horribly slow to load and has been on ever PC I have installed it on. Is there any optimizations that can be employed to ease this pain?
This is not the same question as Visual Studio Optimizations I am just trying to solve the problem with help loading.
Please refer to: Some pointers on increasing VS speed.
EDIT: after re-reading the question I see you were looking for speeding up HELP, not the IDE in general.
It is Microsoft's way of reminding you of Benjamin Franklin's famous quote:
“He that can have Patience, can have what he will.”
... as in this case, Help.
Visual Studio (at least 2005 and 2008) defaults to searching online help before local help.
Did you install help locally when you installed Visual Studio? If you did, is it configured to search local help before searching online help?
FYI, in VS2005 and VS2008 the settings are located in Tools | Options | Environment | Help | Online.