>With VS 2015 R1, the loading time now takes double. So, at every new version of VS, this keeps degradating. Anyone would know what I can turn off to diminish the amount of time that this interface takes for loading? There is certainly a few items I could turn off that I do not need which could help in that direction.
Are you referring to the initial VS startup or the time taken to load a solution ?
IAC, there are a few suggestions here (for VS2013) but they might help with VS2015 :