Visual Studio takes long time to start up

When starting Visual Studio on my machine it used to take a few seconds to start up and be ready to either open or create a new project. Recently however I am finding that it is hanging - stuck on "Updating the News Channel"  and "Connecting
to " Visual studio Online. It remains unresponsive until these actions are completed.  I have a fast internet connection and a fast computer with solid state drive.  I have not experienced any issues browsing using IE or using other applications. 
Is there any suggestion that can help improve this situation?
This is the version and installed packages.  I am using Windows 8.1 Professional 64Bit
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013
Version 12.0.31101.00 Update 4
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.5.51650
Installed Version: Professional
LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2013   06177-004-0446034-02169
Microsoft LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2013
Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013   06177-004-0446034-02169
Microsoft Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013
Visual Basic 2013   06177-004-0446034-02169
Microsoft Visual Basic 2013
Visual C# 2013   06177-004-0446034-02169
Microsoft Visual C# 2013
Visual C++ 2013   06177-004-0446034-02169
Microsoft Visual C++ 2013
Visual F# 2013   06177-004-0446034-02169
Microsoft Visual F# 2013
Visual Studio 2013 Code Analysis Spell Checker   06177-004-0446034-02169
Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2013 Code Analysis Spell Checker
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Windows Phone SDK 8.0 - ENU   06177-004-0446034-02169
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 - ENU
Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio Package   1.0
Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio
ASP.NET and Web Tools   12.4.51016.0
Microsoft Web Developer Tools contains the following components:
Support for creating and opening ASP.NET web projects
Browser Link: A communication channel between Visual Studio and browsers
Editor extensions for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Page Inspector: Inspection tool for ASP.NET web projects
Scaffolding: A framework for building and running code generators
Server Explorer extensions for Microsoft Azure Websites
Web publishing: Extensions for publishing ASP.NET web projects to hosting providers, on-premises servers, or Microsoft Azure
ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2012.2   4.1.21001.0
For additional information, visit
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=309563
ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2013   5.2.21010.0
For additional information, visit http://www.asp.net/
Common Azure Tools   1.3
Provides common services for use by Azure Mobile Services and Microsoft Azure Tools.
GenerateUnitTest   1.0
Generates unit test code for methods in classes under test.
Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 8  
Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 8
Build
Microsoft Azure HDInsight HQL Service   1.0.0000.0
Language service for Hive query
Microsoft Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio   1.0.0000.0
An integrated development environment for HDInsight application development.
Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Tools   1.3
Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Tools
Microsoft Azure Tools   2.5
Microsoft Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 - v2.5.21104.1601
Multilingual App Toolkit   3.1.1250.0
Multilingual App Toolkit helps you localize your Windows Store app by providing file management, pseudo and machine translation, translation editor, and build integration.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkid=245767
Node.js Tools   1.0.30109.03
Adds support for developing and debugging Node.js apps in Visual Studio
Node.js Tools - Profiling   1.0.30109.03
Profiling support for Node.js projects.
NuGet Package Manager   2.8.50926.663
NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit
http://docs.nuget.org/.
Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 ENU   12.0.30626
Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 ENU
PowerShell Tools   1.3
Provides file classification services using PowerShell
PreEmptive Analytics Visualizer   1.2
Microsoft Visual Studio extension to visualize aggregated summaries from the PreEmptive Analytics product.
Python Tools for Visual Studio   2.1.21008.00
Python Tools for Visual Studio provides IntelliSense, projects, templates, Interactive windows, and other support for Python developers.
Python Tools for Visual Studio - Django Integration   2.1.21008.00
Provides templates and integration for the Django web framework.
Python Tools for Visual Studio - Profiling Support   2.1.21008.00
Profiling support for Python projects.
SQL Server Data Tools   12.0.41012.0
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools
Visual Studio Tools for Unity   1.9.8.0
Visual Studio Tools for Unity
Web Essentials 2013   2.5.3
Adds many useful features to Visual Studio for web developers.
Windows Phone 8.1 SDK Integration   1.0
This package integrates the tools for the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK into the menus and controls of Visual Studio.
Workflow Manager Tools 1.0   1.0
This package contains the necessary Visual Studio integration components for Workflow Manager.

Hi Sal_S,
>>Recently however I am finding that it is hanging - stuck on "Updating the News Channel"  and "Connecting to " Visual studio Online. It remains unresponsive until these actions are completed.
What does "Updating the news Channel" mean? You mean that open the VS IDE, and then some links or videos showed in the start page.
Maybe you could change some settings in your VS IDE under TOOLS->Options.
As you said that the VS hanging when it connected to VSO, one idea is that you could post an issue to the VSO forum:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=TFService
In addition, for the performance issue, we would think about many elements.
For example, the machine configurations, run the VS for a long time(we often restart the VS), the temp files(clean them), or the add-ins or extension tools (you could disable them), the third party processes in your task manager which make the CPU is high
or others.
Best Regards,
Jack
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