So, anyway. Visual Studio .NET on my work machine has always had this weird issue whereby if I abort a build halfway through, it will sit and hang for about 5 minutes before I can do anything else with it; likewise, if I alt-tab to or from it whilst debugging an application, it will hang for anything up to a minute, making debugging very frustrating and nearly impossible.

Well, anyway, today I was doing a cleanup of my machine and removed some joystick drivers I no longer needed. Magically, Visual Studio started working normally too. Probably the strangest bit of interdependence I’ve yet seen in Windows, that one. Hmm.

(in case anyone is having similar issues – which I doubt – the drivers were for a Gravis Xterminator Digital joypad, and removing the Gravis Xperience drivers seemed to be what made everything joyful and happy again.)

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