Optimize VS 2005

If you are finding that Visual Studio 2005 if running slowly you can take these steps to improve the speed of your IDE. Here are the tips:

Disable Start Page.
Tools » Options » Environment » Startup, Change At startup setting to Show empty environment.
Disable the splash screen.
Open the properties of Visual Studio 2005 shortcut. Add the parameter /nosplash to the target.
For example: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /nosplash
Close all unnecessary panels and tabs to prevent them from appearing when the IDE loads.

Then optimize your environment itself:

Install Visual Studio 2005 SP1
Turn off animations.
Tools » Options » Environment, uncheck Animate environment tools.

These and other useful features for optimising VS2005 were listed from an article published on a Sitecore blog recently. to see the posting click on the following link.

http://sitecore.alexiasoft.nl/2007/10/25/increasing-productivity-with-visual-studio-2005/

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