Refactoring and performance

I've been (a bit belatedly) trying the free "Refactor!" for C++ from
Developer Express with VS2005. With Refactor! installed and a
medium-sized solution loaded the whole of Visual Studio slows to a
crawl ... it's so slow that I really haven't been able to evaluate
Reactor! ... I can barely edit code. I seem to have to wait for 5-10
seconds before Visual Studio will respond after I activate it (that is:
after I switch to VS from another application) and whenever I allow the
mouse pointer to move over a symbol in the code editor the system
freezes for a short moment.

This is a fairly quick PC -- it's a dual-core 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64
running Windows XP x64 edition (aka NT 5.2) in 2GB of RAM -- no
well-designed piece of software should cripple it this way -- it's like
intellisense on barbiturates!

It seems that Refactor! is trying to follow the editor's context as I
work, and to pop up little menus offering to refactor things as I type
... if that's what's actually going on it's a *really* inefficient way
of working. It should keep out of my way until I want it, and then I
should be able to invoke it from a menu, toolbar button, or whatever
and select the refactoring manipulation that I want it to carry out ...
if it *then* needs some time to think that's OK.

Have other users experienced the same thing? Is there some way to
change its behaviour so that it doesn't kill the PC?

For now I've deinstalled it, but I'd really like to have some of the
functionality available that it's supposed to offer.

Cheers,
Daniel.






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