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Did you know… You can launch VS without the splash screen (/nosplash), and maybe even save some time. - #345

According to some blog posts, this tip should save you some time using Visual Studio 2005. I’ve asked around and I think it loads Visual Studio 2008 slightly faster because there’s no pause for you to read the splash screen.

from cmd line, run devenv.exe /nosplash

and enjoy a splash screen free launch.

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Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:00 AM by saraford

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krishnapr1975 said:

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# October 29, 2008 6:54 AM

wisemx said:

Cool tip but the VS2008 splash screen is groovy. :-)

# October 29, 2008 7:11 AM

Be.St.Blog said:

Questione di millisecondi: velocizzare l'avvio di Visual Studio senza visualizzare lo splash screen

# October 29, 2008 8:55 AM

Murali said:

This is fast, but it is not showing any of the recently opened Project or solutions not even from File menu. No use in opening very quickly

# October 29, 2008 8:56 AM

Serge Wautier said:

The good news is that the splash screen is not displayed when you startup a solution file. I don't know about you but it's nearly always how I fire up Visual Studio: shortcut to a solution, or <win>+R and solution file name.

# October 29, 2008 9:06 AM

Suthep S. said:

Sara, I've translated your post to Thai language at my community web site.

Blog - Sara Ford's Tip - รู้หรือไม่ว่า เปิด Visual Studio โดยไม่มี splash screen ได้นะ (มันอาจจะช่วยประหยัดเวลา)

http://greatfriends.biz?94113

Thanks,

Suthep S.

Thailand MVP

# October 29, 2008 9:18 AM

Bjorn van der Neut said:

Yeah! I would like to read more tips to get a faster working VS :-)

Disable things you dont use or dont use ofter etc.

# October 29, 2008 9:35 AM

Perley said:

Not bad.  Now I may have missed this in a past post (I searched but didn't find anything) but could you tell us how to use the Find in Open Documents so that it does that?  I keep getting results for the entire project.

# October 29, 2008 9:55 AM

Cullen said:

I also go into startup options and set VS to load an empty environment.  These two together save a ton of startup time, imo.

# October 29, 2008 11:01 AM

Kelvin said:

So... what other items are available that aren't documented? I looked for the "official" list (at devenv.exe /?) and /nosplash isn't there. Also, the appropriate page on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kcc7tke7.aspx) doesn't list the switch either.

Thanks!

# October 29, 2008 1:58 PM

Manfred van Overmeire said:

You can also tweak the registry when you never want Visual Studio to show the splash screen.

Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\VisualStudio.Cur.9.0\shell\open\command

and append the /nosplash argument to the command like this:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /dde /nosplash

Good luck!

# October 30, 2008 4:26 AM

Jens said:

Hello Sarah, this works for VS 2003, too!

# November 3, 2008 9:37 AM

Stephen Goodman's Blog said:

Want Visual Studio to open quicker

# March 12, 2009 1:37 PM
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