Question: Is anybody experiencing extreme slowness when using Visual Studio 2008? I have a fairly beefy machine so I don't think hardware is the issue, and I didn't have these issues with 2005. Basically everything that I do is slow, from opening a new project, to opening code, to saving files. All of my Windows Updates are up, I have VS2008 SP1 installed, and I even tried disabling the virus protection.

Answer: 
Try loading Visual Studio in safe mode to load the default environment with [/safemode](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xee0c8y7(VS.80).aspx) switch.

You might also want to try some of the answers here:

[Visual Studio 2008 PAINFULLY SLOW!!](http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/bc778e26-9156-4924-a9ca-a57ef8ff6bcc/)
Disk speed can cause this problem and also add-ins like resharper