title: How to handle Visual Studio 2010 Not Responding?
body: <p>First of all, I am not asking the same question here. ( This may be a duplicate post on Stack Overflow.) I have searched other solutions on <strong>MSDN</strong>, <strong>ASP .NET Forum</strong>, <strong>Stack Overflow</strong>, <strong>Code Project</strong> and everywhere on internet. But none of them solved my problem. These are the links that I found:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kirillosenkov/archive/2012/01/11/vs-hangs-for-1-minute-on-start-debugging-check-for-dead-symbol-paths.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kirillosenkov/archive/2012/01/11/vs-hangs-for-1-minute-on-start-debugging-check-for-dead-symbol-paths.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/272109/Visual-Studio-2010-Hangs-When-Debugging-App" rel="noreferrer">http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/272109/Visual-Studio-2010-Hangs-When-Debugging-App</a></p>
  
  <p>And a lot more...</p>
  
  <p>My <strong>CPU</strong> is 4th Generation Intel Core i7 and <strong>memory</strong> capacity is 8 GB. I think it is  more than recommended hardware requirements.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Problem:</strong>
  My visual studio hangs on these situations.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Opening a solution (Hangs for a minute when I open a file from solution explorer)</li>
  <li>Running the debugging (Freezes consistently when I click on debug button) and</li>
  <li>Stopping the debugging (Freezes immediately after the UI returns to the Developer layout after debugging)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><strong>I have tried the following steps</strong>:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I ensured that I deleted all the breakpoints in the solution.</li>
  <li>I ensured that I am not using any resources from network drive. </li>
  <li>I ensured Step over properties is enabled.</li>
  <li>I ensured Enable .NET Framework source stepping is NOT enabled.</li>
  <li>I start visual studio with <code>SafeMode</code> to suppress extensions</li>
  <li>I cleared watch window.</li>
  <li>I cleaned and rebuilt the solution.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Before I encounter this problem, I installed "Install Web Components" Visual Studio Add-In a few weeks ago. May be because of extensions and add-ins?</p>
  
  <p>How can I do it to solve my problem?</p>