How do I disable the Performance Explorer from opening every time?

This is actually BUG since Visual Studio 2012 that’s been open since summer 2012 with still no official MS fix.

Here’s a workaround to this annoyance:

1. From Windows explorer, go under your VS project folder
2. Remove the following file types if present:
   • file.vsp – (VS Performance Report)
   • file.vsps – (VS Analyzed Reports)
   • file.psess – (VS Performance Session)
3. Re-open the Solution, if error, click OK (the Solution will still load)
4. Close the solution
5. Re-open the solution – the Performance Explorer tab will be finally gone!
   

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   @B. Clay Shannon – thanks for update to also delete *.vsps