Visual Studio 2015 is very slow

Question

I just finished the installation and the whole IDE is super slow. It seems like it\'s making some kind of heavy CPU calls in the background where the whole IDE literally fre

Answer 1

I also had this issue with Visual Studio 2015, tried everything I could read about but in the end all that was left was a clean install. I used Microsofts tool VisualStudioUninstaller to get rid of every component.

https://github.com/Microsoft/VisualStudioUninstaller

Usage:

1. Extract TotalUninstaller.zip
2. Open an administrator command prompt.
3. Execute Setup.ForcedUninstall.exe
4. Type 'Y' to uninstall.

After reinstall everything worked normally again. I did not experience lag in every project but one was causing enough pain so I really had no choice.

Read about another command that you can also try but I know VisualStudioUninstaller works, at least it did for me.

D:\vs_ultimate.exe /uninstall /force

Where D: is the location of your installation media (mounted iso, etc).