How to turn off Intellisense processing?

I'm using VSTS July 2005 CTP. I've found that on idle VSTS kicks in Intellisense processing, which often ends up hanging the IDE. I've looked through all options and can't find a place to turn that processing off.

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How to turn off Intellisense processing?

cool-net
HimanshuG,

What language are you using Changing Intellisense options depends on the language. In general you can go to Tools->Options->Text Editor, find the language you want to customize Intellisense options for there.

If you can't find the option yourself, reply back with the language you are using and I can try to help you out more.

Thanks,

Dylan Lingelbach
Visual Studio Editor Dev
niversen
Could you file a suggestion for a global "turn-off" Intellisense option at the Product Feedback Center

I am going to move this thread to the C++ forums so they can help you more.

Thank you,

Dylan Lingelbach
Visual Studio Editor Dev
MrMojoRisin
This is the documentation from MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vchowintellisenseondemand.asp
Bharat Gohil
I've filed a suggestion, and also added my validation/vote for a couple of defect reports I found on hanging/performance problems when Intellisense kicks in.
Jehanzeb
At this point, there is no option to stop Intellisense from parsing your files. We had some issues in the July CTP where background parsing would go on indefinitely. You might want to try RC1 (September CTP) when it's available.

Thanks,
RudyG
I'm working in C/C++. I turned off the following in Tools > Options > Text Editor > C/C++:

General : Auto list members
General : Parameter Information
Formatting : Enable Automatic Quick Info tooltips
Formatting : (colorize inactive code...)

Intellisense still kicks in when I'm not doing anything (I see
Updating Intellisense... on the status bar). What else should I turn off

Suggestion - it might be helpful to have one top-level flag to turn of all options that would prevent background processing of Intellisense, either per-language, or global.
mattwink
It would be great if intelli-nonsense was at least smart enough to not do indexing while I'm using my computer (or provided an option).

I've compiled; I'm waiting to run a benchmark; and I can't because there is no way to turn off the damn intellisense which completely hogs the CPU.

How about running it on a background thread with lower priority

I swear, MSFT employees must all be compiling on 8-core machines and just not care about efficiency.
Ambrish.Mishra
From: "EG"
Subject: Re: Is there a way to completely disable IntelliSense in VC 8.0
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:41:01 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.vc.ide_general

EG wrote:
> Short question:
> Is there a way to completely disable IntelliSense and all IntelliSense
> related processing in VC 8.0

Well here is the solution (many thanks to CD who told me about it)
Simply rename or delete <VS root path>\VC\vcpackages\feacp.dll
HOANG THONG
Thank you! It's good to know that it's a known defect and that it will be fixed. I've resorted to clicking around in the UI to make the IDE stop processing Intellisense, or sometimes I just close my solution so that it won't hang.
How to turn off Intellisense processing?

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