alik wrote:
> When browsing through the help collection for Visual Studio 2003 each
> page is very slow to load eg. when browsing through the class library
> reference section and choosing, say, system.xml.xmldocument members
> page, the page takes quite a long time to display, although the help
> is installed on my hard drive.
>
> Does anyopne else have this problem?
>
> It didn't used to happen, but I think it started after I installed
> some windows updates a while ago - could be a security thing?
>
> Thanks for any help

"Bob Barrows [MVP]" wrote:

> alik wrote:
> > When browsing through the help collection for Visual Studio 2003 each
> > page is very slow to load eg. when browsing through the class library
> > reference section and choosing, say, system.xml.xmldocument members
> > page, the page takes quite a long time to display, although the help
> > is installed on my hard drive.
> >
> > Does anyopne else have this problem?
> >
> > It didn't used to happen, but I think it started after I installed
> > some windows updates a while ago - could be a security thing?
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> In my experience, slow Help pages is usually due to on-access anti-virus
> scanners (such as McAfee). I usually add the folder containing the Help
> files to the Exceptions list in McAfee properties.
>
> Bob Barrows
> --
> Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
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