How do I trouble shoot a program which regularlly falls into a not responding state?

How do I trouble shoot a program which regularlly falls into a not responding state?

Lately I've been using Visual Studio 2008 and about once a day, sometimes more it will lock up. What advanced techniques can I use to determine what is causing the problem? I believe that it's one of the plug-ins I'm using coughResharpercough but I'd like to be sure. I've been losing work and I'd like to file a bug report somewhere but I'm not seeing anything in any of my event logs which looks suspect to me.

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"Try disabling the suspect plug-ins and working without it for a suitable length of time.

This will at least rule out ReSharper if that's not the cause.

You could also try running Process Monitor from SysInternals.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

or, go to www.sysinternals.com and follow the links through.

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity

NOTE: Process Monitor and Process Explorer are two DIFFERENT applications."