Home/ Questions/Q 330397
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-12T09:40:39+00:00

For some reason my Visual Studio Find dialog, which usually shows instantly after I

  • 0

For some reason my Visual Studio Find dialog, which usually shows instantly after I press Ctrl+F, has started to take more than 2 seconds to show. During this time Visual Studio is entirely unresponsive.

2 seconds for a small window to show is outrageous 🙂 Restarting VS or rebooting the machine didn’t help. Has anyone seen this before? How can I fix this?

OS: Vista x64; Defrag: Weekly, at night

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Fixed by reinstalling Visual Studio.

    P.S. This has happened again; here’s what I observed this time:

    • Visual Studio was running when a major disk defrag occurred.
    • Halfway through the major disk defrag the UI (and the Find dialog in particular) started taking a long time to appear. During the slowdowns the Visual Studio process spends a lot of CPU time in the kernel (according to ProcExp)
    • A Windows Update was pending.
    • Restarting Visual Studio did not help fix the problem.
    • Applying the windows update and restarting the OS fixed the problem.
    • 0