01.06 Improving Performance by Changing the Visual Experience in Visual Studio 2010

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Tools | Options | Environment | General | Visual Experience

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Tools.Options

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2010

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vstipEnv0017

Visual Studio 2010 automatically adjusts the visual experience depending on the situation. For example, it might eliminate or reduce the use of gradients and animations when running in Remote Desktop or virtual machine environments. It also makes use of hardware graphics acceleration when that’s available.

In some situations, you can improve Visual Studio’s performance by changing its Visual Experience manually. To change these settings, select Tools | Options | Environment | General | Visual Experience to see the following dialog box. ...

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