Visual Studio Slows or Goes off in limbo

AutoRecover is a feature in VS 2005, which used for automatically saving work on a regular basis. This will be helpful when power failure or system crash. Anyway, we could turn off it in VS 2005 optionsEnviornmentAutoRecover
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718517.aspx [AutoRecover in the IDE]
If you go into Tools/Options and click on the environment tab you may see an option for AutoRecover.
If not there is a checkbox at the bottom that says show all options then it will show up.
When you click on AutoRecover you will notice that it tries to save your work every 5 minutes.

Trouble installing Visual Studio or .net Framework

I was having trouble installing Visual Studio 2008 after installing earlier betas of it.
Unfortunately the uninstall in add/remove programs was broken. I came across this tool and used it to remove the older frameworks. I thought I would pass it on:

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/04/08/406671.aspx