To be fair, it should be also noted the birth date ... when I was 7 or 12 home computer didn't existed ... However I wrote my first functioning programs on a ZX Spectrum in 1982, at the age of 16.

I personal faced the same problem some time ago, n the company I am working. We realized that visual studio has trouble as the number of the projects (not the number of source files, however) in the solution grows. We had a solution with more or less the same number of projects, and it took 10 minutes to load. We reduced the number of projects to 30 by grouping dlls, while keeping separate source folders, and this fixed the issue. Hope this helps PS: at the time we used VS 2008. Now we migrated to VS2010, and all still wok fine. Our average dev PC is similar to those of you (Pentium core 2, 8GB, Win7 64), and I regularly work with three or four instances of VS opened