What do Various Areo Performance Settings do?
DATE: 10/01/2007
- Animate controls and elements inside windows:
- Activate windows when minimizing and maximizing: Controls animation effect when min/max a window
- Enable Desktop composition: Seems to only effect whether transparency is used on the desktop
- Enable transparent glass: Requires desktop composition to be enabled as well, but handles transparency
- Fade or slide menus into view: Menu animation effect enable/disable
- Fade or slide ToolTips into view:same as above with tooltips
- Fade out menu items after clicking:
- Show preview and filters in folder:
- Show shadows under menus:
- Show shadows under mouse pointer:
- Show thumbnails instead of icons:
- Show translucent selection rectangle: When selecting a group of files, whether there will be a shaded box or just a plain box.
- Show window contents while dragging:
- Slide open combo boxes:
- Slide taskbar buttons:
- Smooth edges of screen fonts:
- Use background image for each folder type:
- Use drop shadows for icon labels on desktop:
- Use visual styles on windows and buttons: Without this, you will be left with the 'classic' windows theme.. and then.. why use vista? I would say leave this alone unless you are on a very old computer or dont like the new visual styles