Visual studio 2005 closes slowly

Question

I experience that on several different machines, with plugins, without plugins, with VB.net or c# solutions of many different sizes, closing the solution in VS 2005 generally takes significantly more time than actually building the solution.

This has always been the case for me since I started using visual studio 2005 so I have learned to live with it, but I am curious: What on earth is visual studio doing when you have actually told it to shut down? Is it significant? Is it configurable, can you turn it off?

Answer 1

I've found that closing all the open documents before you close the solution helps speed it up. Or maybe it's just a perception thing, but it seems faster :)

Answer 2

What on earth is visual studio doing when you have actually told it to shut down?

You can use Process Monitor from sysinternals. It maybe because of some plugins. Try resetting your Visual Studio settings (Tools->Import and Export Settings->Reset All Settings).