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

One thing that can potentially speed up visual studio is to disable document navigation.

Go to Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> and uncheck 'Navigation Bar'.

This is definitately an option in 2008, pretty sure its in 2005 too.

Another option to try:

Go to Tools -> Options -> Text Editor and Uncheck 'Track Changes'.