To ensure "extra quality" performance, your system should meet or exceed these specifications: : 1.6 GHz or faster.
Here is the critical warning. The official Microsoft download links for VS 2010 (Digital River CDs) were decommissioned in 2017. Today, searching for this software leads you to a minefield of low-quality risks:
By following this guide—downloading verified ISOs from MSDN or the Archive, slipstreaming SP1, and applying the correct high-DPI/performance registry fixes—you can run this legendary IDE on Windows 11 with the same stability as it had on Windows 7.