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In my attempts to customize Visual Studio 2008, after 6 months of Rails development in e, I came across a couple of links.

John Lam on Vibrant Ink
and
Dark Visual Studio
almost forgot
Scott Hanselman’s slightly more manual instructions

Now, either one of these will attempt to set your layout to the author’s favorite settings which, frankly, are not my favorite settings. Make sure to uncheck at least the following items, if you want your Visual Studio layout to stay the same:

• Work Item Tracking - View Settings
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
• General Settings -> Window Layouts
• General Settings -> Toolbox
• General Settings -> Menu and Command Bar Customizations

Any other suggestions for keeping as much of your preferred layout around are greatly appreciated.