Visual Studio: How to make its UI fast, lean and minimal?

Question

Visual Studio can be quite slow to open and work with. The menus and auto-hide windows can get sluggish and commands take a while to start. What are the list of things one can d

Answer 1

Here are some tips, actually collected from following blog posts

VS2008

Improve Visual Studio's Source View Performance
Tips to improve performance of visual studio IDE
Visual Studio 2008 Tweaks

VS2010

Visual Studio 2010 Performance Part 1: Startup
Visual Studio 2010 Performance Part 2: Text Editor
Visual Studio 2010 Performance Part 3: A Technical Update

Tips

• Turn off background HTML validation. Go to Tools / Options and select Text Editor / HTML / Validation in the tree view on the left side. Uncheck the Show Errors check box.

• Turn off AutoRecover. Go to Tools / Options and select Environment / AutoRecover in the tree view. Uncheck the Save AutoRecover check box.

• Close your property grid (View / Properties Window)

  • web.config should not have

• Turn off AutoToolboxPopulate (Tools -> Options -> Windows Forms Designer set AutoToolboxPopulate False)

• Turn off Track Active item (Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions uncheck Track Active Item in Solution Explorer)

• Disable Navigation Bar(Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C#, uncheck Navigation bar)

• Move file in App_Code into a class library project

• Disable validation Options for HTML Editing (Tools -> Options -> Validation -> Clear show error checkbox)