Rightclick
an empty area of the desktop, select View, and then select Classic
Icons. Your desktop icons will shrink somewhat, returned to the standard
32 ?— 32 pixel size used in earlier versions of Windows. When Windows
draws larger icons??”Medium Icons, the default in Vista??”it has to stretch
most application icons to the new size, and this can take a little time on
slower PCs. (Note that the icons included with Vista all come in larger sizes
and don??™t need stretching.)
Fine-tune video settings
If you??™re interested in tinkering further with display settings that can affect
performance, right-click an empty area of your desktop, select Personalize,
and then click the Display Settings link.
On older PCs, the speed at which a video card can draw to
your screen is somewhat dependent on the current color
mode and resolution, as described in ???Video Cards (Display
Adapters)??? in Chapter 6. If your games, or Windows itself,
for that matter, are running slowly, try reducing the color
depth and resolution. Newer high-end video cards will not
show any performance hit when run at higher resolutions or
color depths.
In the Display Settings window, click Advanced Settings and then choose
the Troubleshoot tab. Here, the Change settings button lets you fine-tune
some of the performance features of your display driver, all of which vary
with the make, model, and driver version. If the Change settings button is
grayed-out, look for extra tabs in this window; any tab to the right of Color
Management is a special feature of your display driver, and can be used to
change video settings.
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