Monday, October 17, 2011

Make Visual Studio 2010 use more than 2GB of RAM

Tested on Windows 7 Ultimate x64:
  1. Make a backup of 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devaenv.exe'
  2. Add 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin' without quotes to PATH variable
  3. Open cmd under: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE
  4. Run in cmd: 'editbin /LARGEADDRESSAWARE devenv.exe' without quotes
  5. Restart

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