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    This proposed solution worked perfectly for me. It eliminated the flood of vshub requests in Fiddler and overall performance of VS is substantially improved. Microsoft, if you are reading: less is more -- bloatware is the worst thing that you can let happen to productivity software.
    – Shaun
    Commented Dec 9, 2015 at 2:56
  • Just to make sure that nobody gets any wild ideas about removing that file to allow creation of the directory, you can add an ACL to it from the right-click / properties / security tab that does nothing other than deny everyone delete privileges on the file.
    – dgnuff
    Commented Jan 19, 2016 at 2:25
  • I followed this tip and I got incredible speed pickup. My computer is susceptible to disk queuing which sometimes means Visual Studio splash screen is there for 5 minutes (no exaggeration). Thanks so much for this.
    – S Meaden
    Commented Nov 24, 2016 at 11:36