Speeding up Visual Studio

Do you find that Visual Studio is not fast enough for you? There are several guides and options you can tweak to improve performance.

Improve your hardware

• 4Gb of RAM
• Dual or Quad core processor
• Solid State Drive(SSD) hard drive and install Visual studio and project files to this disk.

If this is not possible, try to tweak you visual experience.  One of the more comprehensive guides I found on this is here:
Ultimate Guide to speed up Visual Studio