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Ever since I installed the Longhorn developer preview given out at the PDC, I've been putting up with a couple of rather irritating features in the help browser. (1) it frequently pops up scripting error dialogs when moving from one page to another, and (2) it's incredibly slow - it sits and thinks for about 5 seconds while rendering pages. This happens when you go into (or come back to) a page, and also whenever you flip between the Fields, Methods, Properties and Events tabs for the class documentation. (And this on a 3GHz P4 machine. A dedicated machine too, not a virtual PC.)
I had just been putting up with it, on the grounds that this was pre-alpha software, and I had already had my performance expectations suitably lowered by the warnings at the PDC. However, it turns out to be really straightforward to get rid of the problem.
The help browser only exhibits these problems if your C: volume is formatted as FAT32. (For some reason, that's how my C: volume ended up after installing the PDC bits. Possibly because that's how it was formatted when I bought it...) I just changed it to NTFS, and now the help browser is every bit as snappy as I could have hoped for.
So, don't spend months working with a nearly unusable help browser like I did. Just make sure your main disk is NTFS formatted!