Disabling Intellisense in Visual Studio

For one reason and another I've been needing to use MS Visual Studio 2005 on a big project at work. Unfortunately, running MSVS with a BIG project in a VM on an already resource limited machine can bring my system grinding to a halt. The key offender seems to be intellisense. The easy answer is to disable intellisense... Too bad that's not an option in MSVS! I finally found this tip from k_d on the Microsoft Forums:

The simplest way to disable Intellisense for a solution/project is to simply create a directory with the same name of the intellisense file in the directory where the file normally resides. In other words, if you have a Stuff solution, delete the Stuff.ncb file in the directory where Stuff.sln resides and create a directory named Stuff.ncb. Every time you load the solution a dialog panel will be displayed warning that intellisense will be disabled, but other than that everything seems to operate normally.

And it works!