I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but it is getting pretty annoying. I have a VS2005 project that is version controlled with VSS. When I open the project, it takes up to 4 or 5 minutes to open. This time I did a little digging, and see that the devenv.exe CPU is at from 15 to 40%. Watch the network, and I see that it is very busy reading data. Nothing else going on, it is definitely VS2005... Most likely going to my VSS server. By the time the project finally opens, it has used 3.5 ......