So I have Visual Studio 2003 running on Windows 7 – yeah I am aware it isn’t officially supported – and no, unfortunately I can’t change that situation 🙁
For the most part it works OK but I have a specific problem, that I can’t figure out. The application hangs if you do a project wide search (Ctrl – Shift – F) for a string.
I have a reasonably powerful machine and all the other heavy tasks like compiling and debugging all work fine. It also works if I restrict the search to the current document (Ctrl – F). I am running it as administrator and VS.NET 2003 SP1 has been applied.
The size of the project does not seem to be a problem since a colleague is also experiencing this issue for a single project solution containing 5 pages.
I am currently using Windows Search as a work-around and I was wondering if there is something I missed that I should try.
Try disabling the Aero theme in compatibility. Yeah seriously…