<p>I'm using visual studio 2008 and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReSharper" rel="noreferrer">ReSharper</a> 4 and it's kind of slow. My machine has 2 GB of RAM, dual core processor and a 7200 rpm hard disk. I know more RAM and a faster hard disk could improve performance, but do you have any tips to improve ReSharper/Visual Studio performance?</p>

[{'answer_id': 23740, 'author': 'Stu', 'author_id': 414, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/414', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I'm having the exact same issue, and from the JetBrains site, it looks like they sort-of know about it but aren't admitting anything. Turning off solution-wide analysis does seem to help quite a bit.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 23768, 'author': 'Brad Tutterow', 'author_id': 308, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/308', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p><strong>Turn off the annoying RSS reader</strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Tools, Options, Environment, Startup</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><strong>Turn off all the animations</strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Tools, Options, Environment, Animate Environment Tools</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><strong>Install the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc533447.aspx" rel="noreferrer">recent Service Pack</a></strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Clean out your WebCache</strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WebSiteCache</li>\n</ul>\n'}, {'answer_id': 23981, 'author': 'Christian Hagelid', 'author_id': 202, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/202', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Visual Studio optimisations:  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/8440/202">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8440/visual-studio-optimizations#8453</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Edit:</strong>\nThe above SO post has unfortunately been deleted. </p>\n\n<p>Microsoft have <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/visual-studio-performance-tips-and-tricks" rel="nofollow noreferrer">provided some tips</a> that essentially boil down to turning off features you don\'t need and reducing solution size by splitting up a solution into smaller self contained solutions where appropriate.</p>\n\n<p>JetBrains has also <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/Speeding_Up_ReSharper.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">provided an article</a> that list a whole range of tweaks you can make to both Resharper settings and Visual Studio settings to improve performance.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 56341, 'author': 'berko', 'author_id': 4884, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4884', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Having too many projects within your solution also appears to be a factor when it comes to performance. I have no real evidence of this but from my experience, less projects equates to better performance. </p>\n\n<p>If consolidating projects is not an option then create an alternate solution file so you can add only the existing projects that are relevant to the work you are doing.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 25372331, 'author': 'Alex from Jitbit', 'author_id': 56621, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/56621', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<ul>\n<li>Disable unused extensions under "Tools - Extensions".</li>\n<li>Disable "Track\nchanges" in "Tools - Options - Text Editor".</li>\n<li>Disable "Rich client\nvisual experience" in the "Options - Environment".</li>\n<li>Disable\nIntelliTrace (Ultimate edition only) - in the "Tools - Options -\nIntelliTrace - General"</li>\n<li>Disable "Track Active items" - "Tools -\nOptions - Projects and Solutions - Track Active Item in Solution\nExplorer".</li>\n<li>Disable ReSharper IntelliSense in the ReSharper options</li>\n<li>Disable ReSharper "Analyse errors in whole solution"</li>\n<li>Disable editing\nenhancements in ReSharper - in ReSharper options turn off all the\nboxes under "Options - Environment - Editor"</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>This is a snippet from <a href="http://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/218-visual-studio--resharper-performance-tips/" rel="nofollow">this</a> blog-post</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 70915718, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Mainly open Visual Studio options (Tools | Options) and configure the preferences as follows:</p>\n<p><strong>Environment | General: disable Automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance, disable Enable rich client visual experience, enable Use hardware graphics acceleration if available.</strong> These adjustments will reduce UI lags and improve overall performance.</p>\n<p>Please read this official turtial:\n<a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/Speeding_Up_ReSharper.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Speed up ReSharper (and Visual Studio)</a></p>\n'}]
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