Visual Studio 2013 always starts with unwanted windows

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Using VS 2013 Community Edition (yay!), whenever I start it it opens the Performance Explorer window, which I do not require. I opened it once, and it seems to have saved this layout as default.

I have tried saving the setup without that window, locally overwriting the "CurrentSettings.vssettings", and if I expicitly reload the settings from there it is correct; however, if I close VS and open it again with a solution - Performance Explorer is back again.

Any ideas how/where to save my default settings?? Thanks!

That removes the unwanted window, but it returns as soon as I close VS, open it again, and open a solution. — Joel in Gö, Mar 23 '15 at 07:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '16 at 09:50

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This bug appears to have existed for sometime, across many different versions (read comments)

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/749636/performance-explorer-window-is-always-opened-when-vs-is-started-and-mr-soln-opens

answered Feb 18 '16 at 09:50

Phill

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '16 at 14:43

Phill's link shows the Microsoft Bug, but you can get around this issue.

Go to the Visual Studio Project's folder
Close Visual Studio!!!
Remove the following file types: Performance Reports *.vsp and Performance Sessions *.psess
Re-open the Solution, you'll get an error saying Visual Studio could not find the Performance Reports for the Project. Do not worry; the Solution will still load.
Close the solution.
Re-open the solution - the Performance Explorer tab will be finally gone!

Visual Studio 2013 always starts with unwanted windows

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