Recently had to move from one pc to another and got a feeling that Visual studio got a bit slower on startup and project load. In addition to that, the text became blurry, so I had to google what has changed recently and how to get back proper VS experience. Writing this post for myself to remember where to look at next time 😊 High resolution: DPI problems on big screens are solved with a setting "optimize rendering for screens with different pixel densities . (Using build in search helps to find option without clicking here and there). As text suggested, right after restart everything got sharp again. Visual studio settings: The first improvements suggest I found was to disable options ‘reopen docs on solution load’ and ‘restore projects hierarchy’ The next set of options comes from preview features: Autohide tool window and startup and ‘new git experience’ if you use git. Resharper: For those who use Resharper, jetbrains prepared a nice set of features you can enable to m...