How to improve Team Foundation Server performance !!

Here are some ways to boot your TFS 2008 Performance (Win XP):

- Only select the team projects that you really need from the Team Explorer. This will reduce synchronization time.

- Please delete TFS cache on a weekly basis:
C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation

- Uninstall unnecessary Add-Ins.
How to get the list of installed Add-Ins: Visual Studio ? Help ? About Microsoft Visual Studio

- Disable getting files from the server automatically.
Add a DWORD value called DisableGetMissingFiles under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation\SourceControl
Value Data = 1
Please use “Get Latest Version” instead.

- Create the registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation\RequestSettings\BypassProxyOnLocal of type string with the value "true" to get the improved performance.

The BypassProxyOnLocal setting indicates whether the proxy server should be bypassed for local addresses.

- Split your product across multiple solutions. Solutions with more than 10 projects results in
Slow start-up time
More potential locking on shared resources (eg: vsmdi, runconfig..etc)