What are your most-recommended Visual Studio preferences?

Question

There are so many little options and settings within Microsoft Visual Studio. Which adjustments do you recommend to others?

Answer 1

I've never found dynamic help to be either dynamic or helpful, and just tends to slow visual studio down, so using regedit:

registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Studio\x.x\Dynamic Help
value:
    Never Show DH on F1 = yes

I'm also keen on setting the following in Options->Projects and Solutions:

• Show Output window when build starts - checked (IMHO easiest way to spot build errors)
• Track Active Item in Solution Explorer - unchecked (stops every project ending up fully expanded in Solution Explorer)