A recent support email between customer and our developer shows that Norton/Symantec antivirus may affect Visual Studio’s performance in win7 due to the win7 jumplists. Here’s a workaround for it:
First, to determine if this is the problem, you may want to disable the antivirus temporarily and see if these hangs still repro. If it’s indeed the case, please create/set the following registry value and restart VS2010.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\General]
"ShowRecentFilesInJumplist"=dword:00000001
With the value set, Visual Studio will not try to remove anymore the files from the Win7 jumplists , which would reduce the chance of an antivirus interfering (at least during file saves)
Read more: Visual Web Developer Team Blog
First, to determine if this is the problem, you may want to disable the antivirus temporarily and see if these hangs still repro. If it’s indeed the case, please create/set the following registry value and restart VS2010.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\General]
"ShowRecentFilesInJumplist"=dword:00000001
With the value set, Visual Studio will not try to remove anymore the files from the Win7 jumplists , which would reduce the chance of an antivirus interfering (at least during file saves)
Read more: Visual Web Developer Team Blog