Problem with VS08 performance combined with virus-scanner

Question

Hey, At the moment, I have big problems with my VS08 IDE performance. When I scroll my text-document, it lags. Can somebody who made experience with this problem tell me, if this lags have to do with my Microsoft Forefront Virus-Scanner ?

Answer 1

It's very unlikely that scrolling a text document is affected by a Virus Scanner. The documents in Visual Studio are fully loaded into memory and hence after the initial load, won't be affected by file system items like the Virus Scanner.

It's far more likely the cause is a 3rd party plugin, an extremely large file or solution. Can you give us a bit more detail on exactly what is running inside Visual Studio and how big of a solution you have open?