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"Display" Category

Here you specify exactly which of the Windows visual effects you wish to use, configure how file types are

handled and specify how folder windows and the Explorer should look and act.

Here you will find detailed descriptions of your settings options, sorted by subcategory in the left side of the

window:

Animations and Effects

Effects

Here you can change settings that relate to the display and operation of the Windows user interface.

Under Settings, there are numerous options that you can enable or disable using the checkboxes.

To learn more about an option, simply select it with your mouse. Several lines of explanatory text open

under Description.

Depending on the performance capabilities of your system, switching off unwanted effects can improve

speed. Click Best appearance to select all the options that will give Windows an outstanding visual appear-

ance. If the performance is more important to you, select Best performance. Selecting Default settings

restores the Windows default settings.

Animations

Under Window and message animation, specify whether windows or tooltips should be animated. Here

you can switch on the animation when minimizing and maximizing windows.

If the Animate tooltips with the following effect is switched on, you can select the effect you want from

the selection list.

Under Animation of elements, you can specify for which display and control elements scrolling and open-

ing should be animated. You can turn on the three options list & tree view, list boxes and dropdown lists.

Click Best performance to turn off all the options that only serve to provide showy effects. Selecting

Default settings restores the Windows default settings.

Menu Appearance

Under Animation you specify whether menu items are to be hidden after the menu is accessed. You can

also select a display effect from the list.

Under Effects, you can specify whether Windows should use flat 2D menus or whether a small 3D shadow

should be displayed beneath an open window.

Font Smoothing

To improve the legibility of text on your computer, here you can select your preferred font smoothing

method. The font smoothing type ClearType merits special attention: it is particularly suitable for flat-screen

monitors (TFT and LCD) and makes use of their so-called subpixels to effectively smooth the edges of even

small fonts. Select ClearType and click ClearType Settings to obtain the optimal adjustment of ClearType

smoothing to your screen.

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