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)
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