Do you have any tips to improve ReSharper and/or Visual Studio performance?

Visual Studio optimisations: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8440/visual-studio-optimizations#8453

Edit: The above SO post has unfortunately been deleted.

Microsoft have provided some tips that essentially boil down to turning off features you don't need and reducing solution size by splitting up a solution into smaller self contained solutions where appropriate.

JetBrains has also provided an article that list a whole range of tweaks you can make to both Resharper settings and Visual Studio settings to improve performance.


  • Disable unused extensions under "Tools - Extensions".
  • Disable "Track changes" in "Tools - Options - Text Editor".
  • Disable "Rich client visual experience" in the "Options - Environment".
  • Disable IntelliTrace (Ultimate edition only) - in the "Tools - Options - IntelliTrace - General"
  • Disable "Track Active items" - "Tools - Options - Projects and Solutions - Track Active Item in Solution Explorer".
  • Disable ReSharper IntelliSense in the ReSharper options
  • Disable ReSharper "Analyse errors in whole solution"
  • Disable editing enhancements in ReSharper - in ReSharper options turn off all the boxes under "Options - Environment - Editor"

This is a snippet from this blog-post


Turn off the annoying RSS reader

  • Tools, Options, Environment, Startup

Turn off all the animations

  • Tools, Options, Environment, Animate Environment Tools

Install the recent Service Pack

Clean out your WebCache

  • AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebSiteCache