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My computer seems to be to slow to run VS2005

Author
29 Mar 2006 11:15 AM
Marc
Hi,

Before I had installed Visual basic.net 2003 on my laptop toshiba Tecra S1
Tecra S1 Centrino 1.6GHz / XP Pro / 15.0  256mb
Windows XP servic pack2


After installing Visual Studio 2005
My computer seems to be too slow to debug my developping applications.

Has anyone experience if it is possible ro run VS2005 faster


Thanks in advance
Marc

Author
29 Mar 2006 12:51 PM
pvdg42
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"Marc" <April@village.invalid> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Before I had installed Visual basic.net 2003 on my laptop toshiba Tecra S1
> Tecra S1 Centrino 1.6GHz / XP Pro / 15.0  256mb
> Windows XP servic pack2
>
>
> After installing Visual Studio 2005
> My computer seems to be too slow to debug my developping applications.
>
> Has anyone experience if it is possible ro run VS2005 faster
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> Marc
>
>
Priority one is more memory. If you increase the memory to 1 gig, you'll
notice a dramatic improvement.

--
Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Author
29 Mar 2006 2:03 PM
Alex Clark
Hi Peter,

Any other suggestions?  I'm running a P4 3.2Ghz HT chip with 2GB RAM on XP
Pro SP2 and my disc is regularly defragged, but VS2005 is still incredibly
slow - particularly during Edit & Continue operations.

Thanks for any help you can offer,
Alex


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"pvdg42" <pvdg42@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> "Marc" <April@village.invalid> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Before I had installed Visual basic.net 2003 on my laptop toshiba Tecra
>> S1
>> Tecra S1 Centrino 1.6GHz / XP Pro / 15.0  256mb
>> Windows XP servic pack2
>>
>>
>> After installing Visual Studio 2005
>> My computer seems to be too slow to debug my developping applications.
>>
>> Has anyone experience if it is possible ro run VS2005 faster
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Marc
>>
>>
> Priority one is more memory. If you increase the memory to 1 gig, you'll
> notice a dramatic improvement.
>
> --
> Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
> Jack of all trades, master of none.
>
Author
30 Mar 2006 12:01 PM
Vayse
"Alex Clark" <honeycomb@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi Peter,
>
> Any other suggestions?  I'm running a P4 3.2Ghz HT chip with 2GB RAM on XP
> Pro SP2 and my disc is regularly defragged, but VS2005 is still incredibly
> slow - particularly during Edit & Continue operations.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer,
> Alex
>
>
I'm in a similiar situation - loads of RAM, good PC, VS2005 runs very slow.
10 or 20 second pauses between each change I make on a form.
Author
3 Apr 2006 1:38 PM
H. Edgar
I think, this is not an issue of your PC.This is an issue of Visual Studio
2005. It is very, very slow.
I don't know the MS strategy this about. You can compare. e.g. the search
function in the MSDN documentation for Vs2003 and the help search in Vs2005.



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> "Alex Clark" <honeycomb@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> Any other suggestions?  I'm running a P4 3.2Ghz HT chip with 2GB RAM on
>> XP Pro SP2 and my disc is regularly defragged, but VS2005 is still
>> incredibly slow - particularly during Edit & Continue operations.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can offer,
>> Alex
>>
>>
> I'm in a similiar situation - loads of RAM, good PC, VS2005 runs very
> slow. 10 or 20 second pauses between each change I make on a form.
>
Author
3 Apr 2006 4:08 PM
Marc
Edgar, I think i am agree with you,
Why Visual-Basic2003 is working normal on the same computer? If I runn
Visual-Basic2005 you easely can easely drink a cup of coffee each time
debugging the program
If i should drink every time à  beer or à strong drink......, you guess....
I am not intend to buy each time another notebook..

Marc.  Belgium




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"H. Edgar" <hedgar@noemail.nospam> schreef in bericht
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>I think, this is not an issue of your PC.This is an issue of Visual Studio
>2005. It is very, very slow.
> I don't know the MS strategy this about. You can compare. e.g. the search
> function in the MSDN documentation for Vs2003 and the help search in
> Vs2005.
>
>
>
> "Vayse" <vayse@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:e9FVjG$UGHA.4960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> "Alex Clark" <honeycomb@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:eVaPCmzUGHA.5288@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions?  I'm running a P4 3.2Ghz HT chip with 2GB RAM on
>>> XP Pro SP2 and my disc is regularly defragged, but VS2005 is still
>>> incredibly slow - particularly during Edit & Continue operations.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you can offer,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>> I'm in a similiar situation - loads of RAM, good PC, VS2005 runs very
>> slow. 10 or 20 second pauses between each change I make on a form.
>>
>
>
Author
8 Apr 2006 10:32 PM
William (Bill) Vaughn
Development tools (like Visual Studio) are very RAM intensive. If you don't
have enough RAM to keep core functionality in memory, Windows has to swap. I
run at least 1GB of RAM on all development systems and don't have
performance problems (for the most part).

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"H. Edgar" <hedgar@noemail.nospam> wrote in message
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>I think, this is not an issue of your PC.This is an issue of Visual Studio
>2005. It is very, very slow.
> I don't know the MS strategy this about. You can compare. e.g. the search
> function in the MSDN documentation for Vs2003 and the help search in
> Vs2005.
>
>
>
> "Vayse" <vayse@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:e9FVjG$UGHA.4960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> "Alex Clark" <honeycomb@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:eVaPCmzUGHA.5288@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions?  I'm running a P4 3.2Ghz HT chip with 2GB RAM on
>>> XP Pro SP2 and my disc is regularly defragged, but VS2005 is still
>>> incredibly slow - particularly during Edit & Continue operations.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you can offer,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>> I'm in a similiar situation - loads of RAM, good PC, VS2005 runs very
>> slow. 10 or 20 second pauses between each change I make on a form.
>>
>
>
Author
30 Mar 2006 9:25 AM
Marc
Hi Peter,

Thanks for your answer,

Marc



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> "Marc" <April@village.invalid> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Before I had installed Visual basic.net 2003 on my laptop toshiba Tecra
>> S1
>> Tecra S1 Centrino 1.6GHz / XP Pro / 15.0  256mb
>> Windows XP servic pack2
>>
>>
>> After installing Visual Studio 2005
>> My computer seems to be too slow to debug my developping applications.
>>
>> Has anyone experience if it is possible ro run VS2005 faster
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Marc
>>
>>
> Priority one is more memory. If you increase the memory to 1 gig, you'll
> notice a dramatic improvement.
>
> --
> Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
> Jack of all trades, master of none.
>
Author
30 Mar 2006 3:24 PM
Jim Wooley
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>>> Before I had installed Visual basic.net 2003 on my laptop toshiba
>>> Tecra
>>> S1
>>> Tecra S1 Centrino 1.6GHz / XP Pro / 15.0  256mb
>>> Windows XP servic pack2
>>> After installing Visual Studio 2005
>>> My computer seems to be too slow to debug my developping
>>> applications.
>>> Has anyone experience if it is possible ro run VS2005 faster
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Marc
>> Priority one is more memory. If you increase the memory to 1 gig,
>> you'll notice a dramatic improvement.

I second Peter's recommendation. When you are using VS, open your task manager
and check out how much memory you are using. Whenever you push your usage
over your physical memory limitations, you will "trash" your hard drive swapping
memory in and out. I just pushed my desktop to 1 gig and noticed yesterday
that with 3 large solutions running, I already exceeded that threshhold.
256 meg is the bare minimum for vs2005.

Jim Wooley
http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley
Author
9 Apr 2006 12:25 PM
Jack Dolby
Marc wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Before I had installed Visual basic.net 2003 on my laptop toshiba Tecra S1
> Tecra S1 Centrino 1.6GHz / XP Pro / 15.0  256mb
> Windows XP servic pack2
>
>
> After installing Visual Studio 2005
> My computer seems to be too slow to debug my developping applications.
>
> Has anyone experience if it is possible ro run VS2005 faster
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> Marc
>
>
>
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