VS2005 help unbearably slow

[Matt Daemon]

Hi,

On most machines I use VS2005 on, the MSDN help viewer (Document
Explorer) is unbearably slow. It takes seconds or even tens of seconds
to load and display pages. I've tried to clear the IE cache, tried to
change options in various ways but nothing helped.

Please, is there some way to make the help viewer run faster? Currently
it is faster to use MSDN online which isn't what I'd expect from a
locally installed document viewer.

I'd really like to get under a second for every page. I use the help as
a reference, which means very frequently (might be a couple of times a
minute), and it's not reasonable to spend most of the time waiting for
the help to come up with information I need.

I've got .NET 3.0 installed, latest Windows SDK etc. For example it
currently takes almost five seconds to list members of StackPanel WPF
class on Athlon 64 3200+ with WD Raptor 10000RPM disc drive and enough
free memory. This really is not satisfying. I don't know what the
Document Explorer is doing for those five seconds, but I think there
must be some problem, because something like half a second is maximum
expectable.

Thanks very much for any suggestions, because I'm really frustrated
with this.

Matt

[Matt Daemon]

A week has passed and still no reply. Can anybody please give me at
least a clue where or who should I ask, as this place is probably not
the right place to ask such questions. When somebody buys something and
it does not work adequately, the manufacturer is normally expected to
provide him with appropriate assistance to help him solve problems with
his product. What steps should I take to receive this kind of
assistance from Microsoft if posting to _its_ dedicated newsgroup is
not the right way?

Matt

Post by Matt Daemon
Hi,
On most machines I use VS2005 on, the MSDN help viewer (Document
Explorer) is unbearably slow. It takes seconds or even tens of seconds
to load and display pages. I've tried to clear the IE cache, tried to
change options in various ways but nothing helped.
Please, is there some way to make the help viewer run faster? Currently
it is faster to use MSDN online which isn't what I'd expect from a
locally installed document viewer.
I'd really like to get under a second for every page. I use the help as
a reference, which means very frequently (might be a couple of times a
minute), and it's not reasonable to spend most of the time waiting for
the help to come up with information I need.
I've got .NET 3.0 installed, latest Windows SDK etc. For example it
currently takes almost five seconds to list members of StackPanel WPF
class on Athlon 64 3200+ with WD Raptor 10000RPM disc drive and enough
free memory. This really is not satisfying. I don't know what the
Document Explorer is doing for those five seconds, but I think there
must be some problem, because something like half a second is maximum
expectable.
Thanks very much for any suggestions, because I'm really frustrated
with this.
Matt