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VS Code Running Slow?? Fix Lag & Boost RAM & Memory Performance of VSCode in 5 Minutes ⚡
Mar 2, 2026
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Uh hello guys, in this video I'll show
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you some steps that you can take if your
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VS code is really slow and laggy. It the
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you can increase and boost the
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performance of VS Code by watching this
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video. So first of all, you need to look
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at your extensions. Simply go to this
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tab right here, extensions, and look at
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the amount of extensions that you have
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installed inside your VS Code. And there
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is a command that you can actually
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execute to disable all the extensions in
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one go to actually troubleshoot what
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extensions are creating the problem.
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Or you can individually check all the
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extensions which are installed, disable
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them one by one to actually see which
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extensions are creating the problem. And
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uh there is a command here which you can
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execute to actually launch VS code
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without any extensions. So simply write
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code dash
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disable extensions.
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So this will actually yeah so disable
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extensions.
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So once you click enter the VS code will
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open without any extensions loaded. So
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this is the first step by which you can
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increase the performance. The second
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thing is that you can ex exclude uh
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heavy folders from opening. So go to
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settings and inside
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the settings options you will actually
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see
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if you simply search here search.
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So right in the search bar simply
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enter the search and there you will see
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this widget out there exclude. So you
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need to exclude all these folders which
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is git build dist. So simply click on
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add pattern and add all these folders.
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Dogget, build, dist. So by default these
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three will automatically be added. So
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just add these three as well. So
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whenever you are working with any
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project so these folders are not
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required for searching. So just include
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these inside this list.
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The next step you can actually take is
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there is a feature in VS code which
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consumes a lot of RAM. So this feature
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is called as mini map. So simply search
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inside the search bar mini map. So just
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disable this feature.
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It consumes a lot of uh memory. So by
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default it will be checked. So just
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untick this option. So mini map is
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actually this on the right hand side
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that you see right here. So this feature
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is not useful at all. So you can
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actually disable this feature by untick
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this option and then you can even
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disable one more feature which comes
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this autosave feature. So this actually
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auto automatically saves as soon as you
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type the code. This also consumes a lot
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of RAM and memory as well. So you can
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disable this feature as well. Just
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untick this option. So this will not be
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enabled. So personally I tried these
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solutions. This significantly uh
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increases the performance of VS Code.
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And lastly, you can check up your
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startup performance by simply going to
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command pallet. And there is this
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this thing that you can write here which
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is by going to command pallet. Just
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write here developer
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startup performance. So this feature
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will be there. So just enter this. This
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will actually just list out all the
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memory requirements of your computer
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system or laptop. So it will
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automatically create this file for you.
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So thereby you can actually check how
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much memory is consuming by each
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extension.
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This is the overall memory it will show
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you of your entire system. uh inside
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when you scroll down so it will actually
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tell you which memory which extension is
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consuming how much reven uh RAM and
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memory. So thereby you can actually see
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which extension is consuming a lot of
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memory. So I personally use this a lot
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to actually disable or uninstall those
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extensions which consume a lot of
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memory. So for each extension it tells
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you exactly how much memory it consumes.
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So you hereby you can check your
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performance of your VS code using this
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file and this command I already told you
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this
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to disable all the extensions in one go.
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Simply open command line and just type
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this and then press enter and now it
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will open VS code. All the extensions
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will be disabled for temporary basis of
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time. So this extabling
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all the extensions in one go
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and most importantly you need to update
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VS code to the latest version. So most
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of the time you haven't updated VS code.
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So just go to the menu section go to
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help and simply check this check for
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updates. So if any new update is there,
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you need to download that update to
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actually
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increase the performance of VS code. So
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it consumes less RAM and memory. So if
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there is a new version, go to help and
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basically as you can see it will install
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the update for you.
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So you need to have the latest version
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of VS code to actually boost and the
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performance of your VS code. So these
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are all the steps that you can take. So
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if you if the problem is solved, you
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should definitely like and also comment
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on this video. These are so some of the
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steps you can take
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to increase the performance of VS Code.