If an installer window appears briefly or if Windows
Explorer crashes each time you view a folder full of video
files, it means that one of your video codecs is damaged.
Turn off the Show thumbnails instead of icons option to
bypass the problem, or see ???Playing Video,??? in Chapter 4, to
fix it.
Show translucent selection rectangle. The translucent selection rectangle??”
referred to as a ???rubber band??? in Chapter 2??”is what you see when you
drag the mouse and make a box to select multiple files in Windows
Explorer and on your desktop. It should have no discernable effect on
performance, but since it uses alpha channels (an advanced function
provided by your display driver), you may want to turn this off if you
have any problems using the feature on your PC.
Show window contents while dragging. Turn off this option to show only
window outlines when moving and resizing windows; consider it a
throwback to the early days of Windows. You probably won??™t notice
much of a performance hit with this feature turned on, unless you??™re
using the Glass interface on a PC with a weak graphics engine (display
card). In fact, Vista may seem more responsive with this feature enabled,
as windows will appear to respond immediately to dragging, as opposed
to sitting still until you let go of the mouse button.
Slide open combo boxes. This option controls the animation of drop-down
listboxes, similar to the Fade or slide menus option described earlier.
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