The Adjust for best appearance
option simply enables all features in the list, while the Adjust for best performance
option just disables them.
Now, depending on the prowess of your video hardware, some of these settings
may make more of a difference than others. And of course, some
options may not be present in your edition of Vista.
Figure 5-1. The Performance Options window is a good place to start looking for fat to
trim
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Performance
Animate controls and elements inside windows. Turn this off to nix the
slow-fade effect on buttons and tabs in dialog boxes, the cyclic pulsating
effect on the default button, and the fading scrollbar arrows. Buttons
will still glow blue as you roll over them with the mouse, but they??™ll
do it sans the delay.
Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing. This controls the
squeezing and stretching that happens to windows when you minimize,
restore, and maximize them. Leave it on to see where a window went
when you minimize it, or turn it off to minimize windows without the
wait.
This option also affects the disappearing/reappearing taskbar
if you have both the Auto-hide the taskbar setting in
Taskbar and Start Menu Properties and the Show window
contents while dragging option (described later) enabled.
Enable desktop composition. This vaguely named option is probably the
biggest performance drain you can adjust here, but it??™s required if you
want the glass effect (described next).
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