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I'm running Visual Studio Community 2019 on Windows 10 Home 20H2.
Whenever I try and do anything, such as create a new WinForm or rename something, it might hang or completely freeze, and then I get a 'Visual Studio Delay Notification'. It's really annoying, as I would like to make my programs without interruptions, so any advice is appreciated.
My specifications are as follows:
AMD A9-9425 CPU
4GB RAM
1TB HDD
Lenovo Laptop Brand
Looking at recommended system specs. I see your processor should be fast enough. Min ram is 2 gigs but it recommends 8 gigs. It also recommends having an SSD hard drive.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/system-requirements
I would also recommend updating your antivirus (windows defender included) to not scan the folder your solution is in
Thanks for the recommendations, I'll try that now (update antivirus with exception to my projects folder, in my case Avast) and update if it resolves.
setting all VS folders as Defender exclusions solved the problem for me.
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Hello @oliverd ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.
If you try to launch VS in safe mode(run devenv /SafeMode in Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019), will Visual Studio hang and freeze again?
Besides, did you change some settings in Visual Studio, for example in Tools > Options… or in Project Properties… and did you download and install some third-party extensions? If you installed some of them, please kindly try to disable them temporarily from Extensions > Manage Extensions > Installed > Disable and then restart VS 2019. I also suggest you try to repair and update VS.
Best Regards,
Tianyu
It could be that the Windows O/S page file setting is not at an optimal setting and page trashing is happening that could cause VS to hang.
It is not helpful to say that the Windows O/S page file setting is not optimal and then NOT explain how to check that or how to fix it.