Now, most high-end video cards allow you to modify or disable certain 3D
features, such as 8-bit palletized textures, gamma adjustment, zbuffer, and
bilinear filter. In most cases, these settings won??™t have any effect on Windows
outside 3D games, with the possible exception of the Flip 3D application
(Winkey+Tab). But look for other features you can turn off, such as
custom shortcut menus, special effects for your windows, or a virtual desktop
feature, all of which may slow down your PC when enabled.
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Performance
Make Menus More Mindful
Ever noticed the half-second or so delay between the instant you move the
mouse over a menu item and the moment the menu is opened? By default,
Vista waits 400 milliseconds (just under a half-second) before opening
menus, but if you eliminate the delay, menus will open instantaneously, and
your PC will feel a little more alert.
1. Open the Registry Editor (see Chapter 3).
2. Expand the branches to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.
3. Double-click the MenuShowDelay value. If it??™s not there, go to Edit ??? New
??? String Value, and type MenuShowDelay for the name of the new value.
4. The numeric value you enter here is the number of milliseconds (thousandths
of a second) Windows will wait before opening a menu. Enter 0
(zero) here to eliminate the delay completely.
If you ever have trouble holding your mouse perfectly still,
you??™ve probably found it frustrating to navigate menus??”
particularly those in the Start menu??”in Windows Vista.
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