Speed up Visual Studio 2003 Startup Time By Disabling the Splash Screen

Visual Studio 2003 has a splash screen that is unnecessary and adds time to launching.

To disable this, simply right click on the shortcut to Visual Studio and choose Properties.

Add in the text /nosplash after the end of the Target line, as shown in the screenshot above.

No more splash screen.

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This article was originally written on 11/23/06 Tagged with: Programming, Visual Studio

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Comments (3)

1. February 26, 2007 3:43 am
   Will

   Thanks for the tip, works great with Visual Studio 2005 as well.

2. March 27, 2008 12:56 pm
   HamedVB

   Thanks fot tip,works with VS 2008

3. May 14, 2008 1:15 pm
   Alec Soroudi

   I’d love to use this since it does seem to take VS a while to pass it, but are you sure it won’t take a while to run even without the splash screen? I’m pretty sure that it needs to do a whole lot of initialization like reading big chunks of the registry and files (frameworks, assemblies, etc.) which would take time anyway.