Why does my workspace open and close more slowly after using tags?

For workspaces with very large number of tags, opening and closing the workspace can take longer. So the tags don't have to be rebuilt the next time the workspace is opened, Workspace Whiz! saves the tag list to disk on workspace close. It reads those tags on workspace open.

If the workspace open and close time appears to be taking exceedingly long, try turning Workspace Whiz! off. If it still takes a long time to open the workspace, then the workspace.opt file has become corrupt. Delete it. (This is mentioned in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.)

The status bar should show the tag loading and saving.

Whenever I use a tag function, the title bar says "Checking for updates..." It sits there for a long time. What gives?

Workspace Whiz! is checking date/time stamps on all of the files tags are generated from. This is how it can automatically keep the tag list in sync with changes to your source files. This should never take more than a few seconds generally.

You can perform the refresh manually. First, go to the Preferences->Tags dialog and uncheck the check box which reads "Automatic refresh of tags per each tag command." Now, the refresh won't automatically happen. Press the Refresh Tags button to perform the sync yourself.