In Visual Studio, when searching entire solution, coworker get's results much faster than I do

When I search our large solution for a word, it takes about a minute or two for the entire solution to be searched. I thought this was normal. Then, at a co-worker's desk, he searched his copy of the solution and it took 10 seconds 开发者_开发知识库at most.

I asked him what he did and he said he did nothing special.

Any ideas of how I can speed up my search results?

He probably performed a search before you asked him to. Start brand new visual studio instances (one on each box) and try again, you probably will get the same time; if not, he has a better machine than you, or a machine that has more disk space or is less fragmented.

Do you use the same search settings? Case sensitive, regex/wildcards, ... Could be a huge performance difference.

It can depend on a lot of stuff

• hardware differences
• softwares installed
• antivirus options
• user policies/permissions

The pretty good start point, in my opinion, could be this guide Speedup Visual Studio Guide