Visual Studio 2015 is extremely slow

Question

I have installed Visual Studio 2015 Professional Edition, and my computer specs are Intel i7-3770 CPU 3.40 GHz, 8 GB RAM, and Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit.

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Answer 1

This site contains some useful tips on how to improve the Visual Studio performance, disabling features for large solutions. For example:

1. Go to Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> Advanced and uncheck Enable full solution analysis

2. Go to Tools -> Options -> XAML Designer -> General and uncheck Enable XAML Designer (requires restart of Visual Studio)

3. Go to Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages and uncheck Enable CodeLens

4. Go to Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> General and disable Enable Diagnostic Tools while debugging