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Speed up starting of Visual Studio

For some reason, the folks at Microsoft decided it be a great idea to have a splash screen when you are starting up Visual Studio. Thankfully, this can be disabled to speed up the starting time.

Right click on your short cut which starts Visual Studio and choose the Properties.

Once the properties window opens, select the Shortcut tab.

There will be an entry called Target. In the field, append a space and then the text /nosplash.

Click OK to save these changes.

Next time you start Visual Studio, the splash screen will be skipped.
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Categories: windows Computers programming
Added: on Apr 15, 2007 at 9:16 am
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