Did you know... You can speed up or slow down how fast a tool window slides to a from a docked position? - #114
On the Tools - Options - Environment - General page, you'll find an animate environment tools slider. This option controls the speed at which a tool window will slide in and out of an auto-hide state.
Additionally, you can opt-out completely from the animation effect by unchecking the animate environment tools checkbox. Now, tool windows will pop to their new locations rather than sliding to it.
Since today is a holiday, I've decided to draw a snowman for everyone. Now you have to remember that I'm from the New Orleans area, and I've seen snow about 4 times in my life (with the exception of last winter's snow storms in seattle). I have no idea how to draw a snowflake, so i tried a variation of a # symbol and a star.
[snowman]