Visual Studio 2010 — how to reduce its memory footprint

Question

I have a solution with just under 100 projects in it, a mix of C++ and C# (mostly C#). When working in VS2005, the working set of Visual Studio is considerably smaller than

Answer 1

If you're on XP, upgrading to Vista or Windows 7 will help as it uses WPF. May reduce the memory footprint of the UI rendering which would otherwise have to use compatibility mode.