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

I know that VS 2008 slowed down from VS 2005. I feel this pain every once in a while when im doing a quick Find or Find-Replace, or Find-In-Solution...etc. The UI sometimes isn't as fast as your hands are (when you're using keyboard shortcuts).

1. I found that just slowing down sometimes is the way to do it (it sucks, but then again, so does many things about Windows).

2. If it's load times youre concerned about; disable the startup stuff (from the Options menu). Here you can choose to load a blank screen upon VS load AND not to subscribe to any news feeds. (this helps alot depending on your internet connection).

3. you can also, via Options, adjust the visual animations that occur, as well as just disabling them altogether.

If there's anything else im missing, which im sure there is, i'd really like to know as well!