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: 
**Yes it is slow.**

I have a very fast Intel E8500 machine (2x3.16ghz) with 4gigs of RAM and Visual Studio 2008 IS SLOW.

Opening a dialog is slow, creating a new project is slow, you have to wait a few seconds after the dialogs.

NOT everytime though, because once you load these dialogs in memory, they are faster the second time.

But it's still too slow, much too slow.
Empty your recycle bin. Turn off 'wrap text' in the output window.