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

<p>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:</p>

<p>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?</p>

[{'answer_id': 45320, 'author': 'Glenn Slaven', 'author_id': 2975, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>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 <em>seems</em> faster :)</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 45322, 'author': 'jfs', 'author_id': 718, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/718', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<blockquote>\n  <p>What on earth is visual studio doing\n  when you have actually told it to shut\n  down?</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>You can use <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Process Monitor</a> from sysinternals. It maybe because of some plugins. Try resetting your Visual Studio settings (<strong>Tools->Import and Export Settings->Reset All Settings</strong>).</p>\n'}]
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