I have solutions with several projects, and they take seconds to open... Even less if they aren't bound to VSS. I have never really timed these things because I have never thought there to be any problems, so everything must only take seconds.

>Hi Mike.
>Whats 'Fine' for you.
>How long does it take to open Visual Studio
>How long does it take to open Web site (i.e. File Open, Web Site)
>
>Regards,
>Gerard
>
>
>>I have 1 gig on my machine and VS.NET runs just fine.
>>
>>>Hi Mike.
>>>
>>>VFP zips along...no problems.
>>>I think there was one reply to this thread, that had 2 Gigs Memory, and dot net still crawled ??
>>>Regards,
>>>Gerard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>512 isn't reasonable to run VS 2005. IMO it's barely reasonable to run XP.
>>>>
>>>>>Hi Kevin
>>>>>Vs 2005,No external site,No source Control,Very basic Pages
>>>>>Dell is reasonbly specced.. 3 GHz CPU, 512 MB
>>>>>
>>>>>The time I speciifed was from when i click on Open Web Site, to whrn the Page in design mode appears on the screen
>>>>>.e. I do a File ..Open..Web Site and point to a folder where my Pages are
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I dont think its a problem with the PC because VFP is lightning fast..
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>Gerard
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>Hi, Gerard,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>First, are you using VS 2003 or VS2005?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You mentioned the website with 10 forms, and that it's taking close to a minute. Is this just to open the development project, or to actually run the site? Is the website communicating with an external site....and/or are you using any source control system right now? (just trying to get a handle on your environment...I have development projects for websites with way more than 10 forms, and it never takes that long to load).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>How much memory is on your Dell Inspiron?