Slow startup of vs code.

[saransh79]

Type: Performance Issue

From last 10 days , VS code takes lot of time for open and sometimes it show warning to close, restart and wait. This issue was never happened before. I want you to suggest me something to deal with this issue.

VS Code version: Code 1.78.0 (252e5463d60e63238250799aef7375787f68b4ee, 2023-05-03T20:09:00.748Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621 Modes: Sandboxed: No

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz (8 x 2419)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: enabled| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|15.70GB (7.84GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id 25145be5-1b6c-4728-b160-2ff78d0f2578| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Process Info

``` CPU % Mem MB PID Process 0 97 7836 code main 0 28 4388 crashpad-handler 0 90 9800 shared-process 0 81 15564 ptyHost 0 175 10312 window [1] (index.html - First Chrome Extension - Visual Studio Code) 0 171 15344 extensionHost [1] 0 103 21864 electron-nodejs ("C:\Users\dream\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe" --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node "c:\Users\dream\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\extensions\html-language-features\server\dist\node\htmlServerMain" --node-ipc --clientProcessId=15344) 0 79 23420 electron-nodejs ("C:\Users\dream\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe" --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node c:\Users\dream\.vscode\extensions\formulahendry.auto-rename-tag-0.1.10\packages\server\dist\serverMain.js --node-ipc --clientProcessId=15344) 0 83 15700 fileWatcher [1] 0 50 18960 utility-network-service 0 87 23888 window [2] (Issue Reporter) 0 230 24564 gpu-process ```

Workspace Info

``` | Window (index.html - First Chrome Extension - Visual Studio Code) | Folder (First Chrome Extension): 5 files | File types: html(1) js(1) png(1) json(1) css(1) | Conf files:; ```

Extensions (16)

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version ---|---|--- npm-intellisense|chr|1.4.4 c-cpp-compile-run|dan|1.0.44 es7-react-js-snippets|dsz|4.4.3 prettier-vscode|esb|9.12.0 file-icons|fil|1.0.29 auto-rename-tag|for|0.1.10 code-runner|for|0.12.0 vscode-language-babel|mgm|0.0.39 python|ms-|2023.8.0 vscode-pylance|ms-|2023.5.10 jupyter|ms-|2023.4.1011241018 jupyter-keymap|ms-|1.1.0 jupyter-renderers|ms-|1.0.15 cpptools|ms-|1.15.4 vscode-react-native|msj|1.11.0 LiveServer|rit|5.7.9

A/B Experiments

``` vsliv368:30146709 vsreu685:30147344 python383cf:30185419 vspor879:30202332 vspor708:30202333 vspor363:30204092 vslsvsres303:30308271 vserr242:30382549 pythontb:30283811 vsjup518:30340749 pythonptprofiler:30281270 vshan820:30294714 vstes263:30335439 vscorecescf:30445987 pythondataviewer:30285071 vscod805cf:30301675 binariesv615:30325510 bridge0708:30335490 bridge0723:30353136 cmake_vspar411:30581797 vsaa593cf:30376535 pythonvs932:30410667 cppdebug:30492333 vsclangdc:30486549 c4g48928:30535728 dsvsc012:30540252 pynewext54:30695312 azure-dev_surveyone:30548225 vsccc:30610678 282f8724:30602487 pyind779:30671433 89544117:30613380 pythonsymbol12:30671437 a9j8j154:30646983 6233i204:30730053 azdwalk:30721579 pythonms35:30701012 pythonfmttext:30731395 pythoncmvfstr:30731969 fixshowwlkth:30730052 hidesbindicator:30730055 ```

[tamuratak]

McAfee Antivirus might be the cause. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/178733#issuecomment-1500812938

[deepak1556]

Merging to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/178962

Please follow the workaround mentioned in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/178733#issuecomment-1500812938 until the issue is resolved.