I've been writing this piece of software primarily in Microsoft's Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express. It has been running very slow on my main development machine which granted is only a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 ...

I'd like to do a little Windows coding off and on, but I'm worried that I'll choke my machine if I install Visual Studio. By default, does it fill your machine up with a lot of stuff running in the ...