Speedup you Visual Studio 2005 startup times

During our meeting today about Eclipse I’ve mentioned what I do to speedup my Visual Studio startup. As those are really short and easy tips, I’ve thought to post them here as well.

Here it goes (in no particular order):

• Turn off the splash screen of the studio on the options
• Close all the toolbars (none are opened by default)
• Turn off the toolbar auto refreshing (or how is it called) in the options
• Turn off the Start page in the studio - again in the options - and this helps not to have the unneeded screen show up, and that the RSS feed from some site is not synced
• Install SP1 for Studio - simple: when building projects = less crashes = less opens

As you can see, these things are very simple and straightforward, but still they do make a difference to me.

Cheers!