Customizations
The first thing I did was removing these entries from the ZMI.
From left:
here/portlet_recent/macros/portlet
here/portlet_related/macros/portlet
From right:
here/portlet_review/macros/portlet
here/portlet_news/macros/portlet
here/portlet_events/macros/portlet
here/portlet_login/macros/portlet