I believe that better tools lead to better results. That’s why I care about my tools performance a lot!

On Saturday at the ICE-Lingen I talked to Peter Kirchner and Kay Giza on how to speed up Visual Studio by configuring you Anti-Virus software.

But there are lots of things you can do. So I decided to share the tweaks on environment:

Disable “Animate environment tools”…

Disable “Track Changes”…

Disable “Cider” – the WPF designer in VS 2008 …

Disable the WPF designer in VS 2010…

Disable “Track Active Item in Solution Explorer”…

 

Start with empty environment/disable start page…

 

Disable “Enable rich client visual experience”…

Enable “Only build startup projects and dependencies on Run”…

Disable intellitrace…

Force Visual Studio to Garbage Collect…

Exclude the GAC and Visual Studio related directories from you virus scanner…

Exclude the devenv.exe from your virus scanner…

Ensure your projects directory is not indexed…

Patch the devenv.exe to support 2+ GB memory…

 

 

And if you are not running Windows 7 yet: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981741