In addition to the blog post SSMS-waiting-for-an-internal-operation-to-complete I have faced additional problems such as all the menus aren't displayed within SQL Server Management Studio from the same laptop. Other users within our team has observed similar behaviour within their Management Studio (SSMS) screens (using desktop) when trying to connect a set of SQL Server instances. The issue isn't persistent and this happens only when we are trying to monitor a replication setup instances. To get...(
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Read the complete post at http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/12/18/sql-server-management-studio-unable-to-see-all-the-menus-and-unresponsive-when-managing-sql-instances.aspx