I've been having some pretty significant problems with Visual Studio

2005, which are now to the point where basic tasks have become near

impossible. I have a large solution that I'm working with that

contains several projects (one C++ COM server, a few C# class

libraries, a web service, and a C# Winforms app), and I find that very

frequently, the CPU usage on my machine (single P4 CPU on Server 2003)

will spike to 100%, and the memory usage in the task manager will

increase to 900 Mb or more when doing nothing but editing text in a

.cs, .cpp, or .h file. This seems to happen much more frequently on

longer files (1000 lines or more). I just had my machine lock up again

by adding a single line of code to a header file.

By searching these forums, I've tried solutions like disabling the

navigation bar and word wrap, but have seen no performance

improvements. These problems were present before SP1 installation, and

installing the service pack has only seemed to make the problem worse

than before. Is there another fix to the problem, or anything else

that I can provide in order to help diagnose the issue?

Thanks,

Chris