# How To...Speed Up Project Loading

Use Project Settings to configure various options for your project. Cognex Designer supports an experimental setting designed to reduce the time required to load your project:

Don't load IDE pages on startup | By default, Designer will auto-load environment Documents (for example, Pages/Tasks) from the last run session. This feature clears the last session cache so documents are not loaded.

Prior to enabling this feature, be aware of the following:

- Cognex recommends you create a backup of your project.
- Be aware of the possibility that some project configurations might include features/plugins that were not encountered during Cognex testing which may prevent the project from loading correctly.
- Once you apply this setting and load your project, Cognex recommends you check the log file for any errors on startup (View\Output from IDE).