Speeding Up SpringSource Tool Suite (STS)

I'm a big fan on SpringSource's flavor of eclipse (STS), but sometimes it is painfully slow.  Here are some tips on how to speed it up, although it does have the tradoff of automatic validation and some other potential conveniences.

1. Disable validators: Preferences -> Validation: check Suspend all validators
2. Disables Spring validation: Preferences -> Spring: uncheck unwanted validation rules
3. Disable Build Automatically: Preferences -> General -> workspace: uncheck build automatically
4. Disable Maven indexing on startup: Preferences -> Maven: uncheck Download repository index updates on startup

References:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2727040/why-is-springsource-tool-suite-sts-so-slow-and-how-can-i-fix-it
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7189127/sts-spring-with-roo-and-maven-too-slow-tips-and-tricks-needed
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5012567/why-does-eclipse-take-so-long-to-update-maven-dependencies