http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/350495/Visual-Studio-2010-WAS-painfully-slow
This is a very quick tip for anyone who, like me, has found Visual Studio 2010 to be painfully slow.
Go to
Tools ==> Options ==> Environment ==> General ==> Visual Experience
Then UNTICK
Automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance
And UNTICK
Use graphics hardware acceleration if available
No promises that this will work for you - but the difference it made for me was VAST!!!
For information, I'm running VS2010 Pro SP1 on W7 Pro SP1 x64 / AMD 2GHz dual core / 6GB RAM on an ASUS M2NPV-MX motherboard (with integrated NVidia GeForce 6150 graphics) - and everything patched / up to date with latest drivers etc.
With graphics hardware acceleration turned on the editor just clunked - it could take seconds for the screen to catch up with cursor movement / scrolling / typing - with it turned off I'm back to a nice responsive environment.
Hope this helps someone out there!
License
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
About the Author
NuttingCDEF