Ways to speedup Visual Studio 2010
There's been a lot of [noise][1] about Visual Studio 2010 being slower than its predecessor, VS 2008.

- [Visual Studio 2010 is a pig][2]
- [Visual Studio 2010 – 10 is the new 6, but not the way they wanted][3]
- [Visual Studio 2010 is very slow on even very fast PC][4]
- [Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate is really slow][5]
- [Visual Studio 2010 Slow to Load][6]
- [Visual Studio 2010 Slow Startup Issues][7]

I was facing the same issue for the last couple weeks, and after an hour of searching around I found a couple of solutions that have made my IDE about **70% faster** on most operations, including code editing.


> **30% speedup**
> 
> Tools > Options -- CHECK "Show all options"
> 
>  -  IntelliTrace -- DISABLE
>  -  HTML Designer -- DISABLE
> 
> **50% startup speedup**
> 
> Tools > Options
> 
> -  Environment > Add-in/Macros Security -- UNCHECK "Allow Add-in components to load"
> 
> Tools > Extension Manager 
> 
> -    Uninstall all you don't need.



Restart your IDE after these and you should observe a noticeable speed increase. 

Do you have any more tricks? feel free to add them as answers.


  [1]: http://www.google.com/search?q=Visual+Studio+2010+slow
  [2]: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/04/22/visual-studio-2010-is-a-pig/
  [3]: http://blogs.ijw.co.nz/chris/index.php/2009/07/visual-studio-2010-10-is-the-new-6-but-not-the-way-they-wanted/
  [4]: http://stridersoft.com/blog/archive/2010/10/26/visual-studio-2010-is-very-slow-on-even-very-fast.aspx
  [5]: http://www.devtopics.com/visual-studio-2010-slow-startup/
  [6]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3807703/visual-studio-2010-slow-to-load
  [7]: http://jonsblogat.blogspot.com/2010/06/developer-tools-visual-studio-2010-slow.html

Ways to speedup Visual Studio 2010
===

There's been a lot of [noise][1] about Visual Studio 2010 being slower than its predecessor, VS 2008.

- [Visual Studio 2010 is a pig][2]
- [Visual Studio 2010 – 10 is the new 6, but not the way they wanted][3]
- [Visual Studio 2010 is very slow on even very fast PC][4]
- [Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate is really slow][5]
- [Visual Studio 2010 Slow to Load][6]
- [Visual Studio 2010 Slow Startup Issues][7]

I was facing the same issue for the last couple weeks, and after an hour of searching around I found a couple of solutions that have made my IDE about **70% faster** on most operations, including code editing.


> **30% speedup**
> 
> Tools > Options -- CHECK "Show all options"
> 
>  -  IntelliTrace -- DISABLE
>  -  HTML Designer -- DISABLE
> 
> **50% startup speedup**
> 
> Tools > Options
> 
> -  Environment > Add-in/Macros Security -- UNCHECK "Allow Add-in components to load"
> 
> Tools > Extension Manager 
> 
> -    Uninstall all you don't need.



Restart your IDE after these and you should observe a noticeable speed increase. 

Do you have any more tricks? feel free to add them as answers.


  [1]: http://www.google.com/search?q=Visual+Studio+2010+slow
  [2]: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/04/22/visual-studio-2010-is-a-pig/
  [3]: http://blogs.ijw.co.nz/chris/index.php/2009/07/visual-studio-2010-10-is-the-new-6-but-not-the-way-they-wanted/
  [4]: http://stridersoft.com/blog/archive/2010/10/26/visual-studio-2010-is-very-slow-on-even-very-fast.aspx
  [5]: http://www.devtopics.com/visual-studio-2010-slow-startup/
  [6]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3807703/visual-studio-2010-slow-to-load
  [7]: http://jonsblogat.blogspot.com/2010/06/developer-tools-visual-studio-2010-slow.html
