There??™s a nearly identical option in Internet Explorer that
makes web pages scroll more slowly. In IE, click the Tools
drop-down, select Internet Options, and then choose the
Advanced tab. At the end of the Browsing section, turn off
the Use smooth scrolling option and click OK.
Use a background image for each folder type. Get rid of the watermark
picture shown behind certain system folders like Control Panel and
Pictures, and those folders will open a little more quickly (and the text
will likely be more readable, to boot). Strangely, this feature doesn??™t
seem to be present in Vista at all, making this option totally pointless,
although your experience may differ.
Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop. This setting affects more
than just the shadows behind icon captions; it makes the text background
transparent. If you??™re using desktop wallpaper (as opposed to a
solid color background), and you turn off this option, small swaths of
the current solid background color will show through the captions of
your desktop icons.
Use visual styles on windows and buttons. Turn off this setting to make
Vista??™s interface look more or less like Windows 98/2000. It??™s the same
as selecting Windows Classic style in the Window Color and Appearance
page in Control Panel.
That??™s it for this window; click Apply to test your changes, and then OK
when you??™re done.
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Next, if you??™ve noticed that Windows has been slow to update desktop
icons, and you have a lot of them, there is a setting that may help.
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