Visual Studio File Open Dialog - Extremely Slow

[jolly]

WinXP Pro, Visual Studio 2005, E1 8.12.

It's all reasonably up to date. There doesn't seem to be any antivirus issue. Browsing the source folders with Windows Explorer is no problem.

But File/Open from Visual Studio goes off to never-never land for several minutes. Can't find anything on MS support about this.

Anyone else seen this before?

Thanks
JohnO

 

[BOster]

One thing to check. Look for a bunch of files (thousands) named like the following:

jas_26600_20130624_0.log
jas_26600_20130624_0.log.lck
jderoot_228_20130617_0.log
jderoot_228_20130617_0.log.lck

Mine usualy show up in the C:\[jde root]\ folder (C:\E900 for me) but some times show up other places if my working directory is different when I launch activeConsole.exe - for example some times when I launch from a VS project.

Everytime you launch activeConsole.exe it creates 4 of these types of files and they never go away. After a while you will have thousands of them and they really slow things down. I delete all of mine about once a week.