Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense slows down everything

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The Communist Duck picture The Communist Duck · Aug 28, 2010 · Viewed 19.6k times · Source

I have the issue with Visual Studio 2010, after a while, running exceptionally slowly and slowing everything else down with it. I'm meaning:

  • Most other open windows become unresponsive
  • Typing is delayed
  • Build times increase 10-fold
  • Saving takes forever

I am sure this is an Intellisense issue; disabling it solves everything, and when this happens in Task Manager I find a couple of vcpkgsrv.exe (the Intellisense thing) running at about 160,000K memory (This is about the same as an older, less graphical intensive games). However, I would like to run Intellisense. The only way I have of solving this at the moment is to abort these processes when they slow stuff down.

I have tried getting the patch and think it is installed, because I cannot install it again.

EDIT: I'm running Windows XP, with VSC++ Express. I have 2GB RAM, and a dual core 3.2GHz Processor. Anyone help please?

Answer

zarzare picture zarzare · Oct 4, 2010

I had the same problem with my Windows XP machine. After a long search I found a solution so I'll post it back here since it was the first result I got on google.

Install Windows Automation API update for Windows XP (KB971513).

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB971513

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