VS2015 starts up in ~1 second for me even with all the options installed. If I open a solution with 10 C# projects in it, it takes about 3 seconds.<p>So is your complaint basically that it&#x27;s just taking up too much hard drive space? I can&#x27;t see how the other stuff (TFS Explorer Winforms&#x2F;WPF designers) could possibly be getting in your way, especially since you don&#x27;t ever have to open them.