Yes there is: 

in Management Studio (object explorer) click on the tab "LinkedServers" Press F7 all the Linked Servers should now be on the right hand side, Press CTRL...

I like the way you say do an Edition upgrade to Enterprise like its nothing.... depending on how many processors you have on your server this could be an expensive...

I agree with this whole heartedly, the problem I get from developers is more over indexing a column to death, then the performance can really degrade!

Excellent read though