Visual Studio 2010 very slow, unusable

Question

I\'ve searched for this topic but can\'t seem to find posts that relate exactly to what I am experiencing.

I have a Visual Studio solution that I need to work on, it

Answer 1

My mouse lags over menus too! For menus that are grayed out, it is fine. But for active menus, the mouse feels sticky when moving over them.

One solution i tried and it works is disable rich user experience and disable hardware acceleration.

Tools -> Options -> Environment (General) -> Visual Experience -> uncheck Use hardware graphics accelerator if available.

I have a good graphic card, but stopping visual studio from using graphics hardware makes my mouse sooo smooth now!