New PC - DevStudio .NET very slow in form editor   

Hi,

I have recently been upgraded from a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz with 1GB of RAM 
running XP Pro SP2 to a Xeon quad core E5405 2.0Ghz with 2GB of RAM running 
XP Pro SP2.

I have installed DevStudio .NET on it as our project is currently written 
with that and .NET 1.1 and that is how it is staying at present.

The first job I attempted to do was add a new radio button to a form.  It 
was then I noticed that the IDE would flash and flicker for a long time 
before the item I had selected on the form designer became available to 
edit.  In fact any operation in the form designer takes an age and it is 
effectively unusable; resizing a button, box or form, trying to change 
properties on buttons or rename, they all take ages with the associated 
flickering of the IDE going on.  I am going to have to go back to using my 
old PC until I can figure out what is causing this behaviour as I have no 
such problems on that.

Thank you for any assistance

date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:58:17 +0100   author:   KeithM am

RE: New PC - DevStudio .NET very slow in form editor   

Hi Keith,
 
Thank you for posting here!
 
I notice that you have posted the same question in our 
microsoft.public.vsnet.general newsgroup, which I have already 
responded. So please check my answer there and if you need any further 
assistance on this particular issue, please reply to me in that thread so 
that I can follow up with you in time. 
 
For your convenience, I have included my reply as following:
 
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In order to better understand your question, could you please answer the 
following questions for us?
What is the version and service package of Visual Studio.net that you are 
using? You could get the information from menu [Help] / [About ..].

What is the target platform for the Windows XP Pro in Xeon machine? 32bit 
or 64bit?

Are you sure that both environments have default settings and configuration 
on Visual Studio .net? No add-in installed?

Could you create a new windows form application with default settings , and 
check if it is still slow in form designer?

I am looking forward to you answers for further assistance. In the 
meanwhile, I will do a test to create a windows form application on 32bit 
OS and copy it to 64bit OS and try to open it in form designer to check if 
it is slow. Thanks.
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Thank you and have a nice day!

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date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:40:21 GMT   author:   (Hongye Sun [MSFT])