>Hello all,
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>The last week I have experienced VS 2008 crashing several times per hour. I find myself saving and checking in at least every couple of minutes. This has happened after virtually no changes to my PC that I can think of I don't notice anything specific to be the cuase or trigger.
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>The message I get is asking if I want to Debug, close the application, or restart the application. Occasionally win I restart I get a message indicating VS can recover some files but that has proven to be a worse idea then just retyping what I did.
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>anybody else having any issues like this? If so any ideas on how to correct it?
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>I am running VS 2008 Development Edition Version 9.0.30729.1 SP with Dot Net Framework version 3.5 SP1 on a 64bit windows 7 box with 12GIG RAM and a Intel Xeon 2.4GHz 2 Core processor.

If VS is crashing but Windows is not, there may be messages logged in the System or Application Event logs (or maybe Win7-specific log files if any are relevant to VS).

You could run CHKDSK on any volumes used during your VS sessions.

Just for grins you could test your RAM memory with MemTest86+: http://www.memtest.org/