Download the extension at the Visual Studio Marketplace or try the CI build.
Collapse all tool windows except the ones you really need visible and gain 10-33% faster Visual Studio startup times and a fresh starting point every day.
Select which of the known high-performance tool windows to leave docked when all others will auto-hide.
Choose between:
- Command Window
- Error List
- Output Window
- Solution Explorer
- Task List
- Toolbox
Additionally, if there is another window or two you really want to stay visible then you can accept the potential performance hit and use the custom Window Captions List to specify these.
The fewer tool windows docked on startup, the better the performance. So, if all tool windows were un-docked (collapsed), you got zero negative performance impact from tool windows.
