Visual Studio Startup acceleration

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Three months in and my Visual Studio-is running slow, I-ll even go as far as saying it's freezing up some times, so I loaded up SysInternals Process Monitor and set a filter on Visual Studio and to my complete and utter amazement I found Perfwatson Running Wild in the system

Perfwatson is designed to drive performance improvements and make Visual Studio faster by automatically reporting Microsoft, this sounds great but it's just running crazy on my machine and I need to take it off.

To take it off your need to is in Visual Studio (if you can get it loaded, then go to the tools/extensions and Updates Sections and you ll find Visual Studio Perfwatson installed, just uninstall and it'll be gone.

Another area to clear out are the Websitecache, which Kevin Rintoul wrote about on his blog Slow Visual Studio performance ... solved!, which can be found at:

C:\Users\jQuery152010256510121984808_1361448287186jQuery152010612401940409233_ 1361449184152jquery15207433351762976833_1361449212578?? \appdata\local\microsoft\websitecache

If you is using TFS with Visual Studio then another great tip from Nick on his blog post How to fix slow Visual Studio + Tfs

Edit The Visual Studio Config file found in C:\Program Files (x86) \microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\common7\ide\devenv.exe.con Fig
and locate the following line:

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1	<system.net>

Right below (above settings, not under), insert the following line of code:

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1	<defaultProxyenabled="false"/>

Your Visual Studio should now is more responsive!

Anyone else got any tips to increase the performance of Visual Studio is most welcome.

Visual Studio Startup acceleration