SSMS Slow Open

  • Is it normal for SSMS 2012 to take about 42 seconds to open on a workstation?

    Windows 7 Enterprise x64

    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU, M540 @ 2.53GHz 2.53GHz

    4.00 GB

    SSMS Version 11.0.3128.0

    I've applied all Windows updates to my SQL server.

    After closing SSMS and re-opening it only takes about 11 seconds. It seems to be the first start-up.

  • Interested to know the answer, because this happens for me as well. (I think it being faster on the second run is just because Windows still has a bunch of the files it uses cached in RAM, though).

  • By any chance your profile is deleted or different option like citrix or other?

    Regards
    Durai Nagarajan

  • I've had this before when I've had an authenticated proxy server that doesn't allow other applications out over the internet. I think the reason is that SSMS 2008 (not sure about 2012) has some signed libraries that it tries to validate across the internet. Some of the fixes/hacks here have worked for me before. Not sure if it's relevant to 2012 or not, but worth a try.

    Although if it opens quickly the second time, sounds like it could be very slow/fragged disks and it's quicker on re-opening as it's cached in memory...

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