Display properties
While pretty photos and animated graphics are fun, they also contribute to bogging down your lean mean audio machine. And in keeping with Microsoft’s tradition of making looks a high priority, those fancy visuals are programmed to take processing priority away from what we consider important, processing audio. Disabling those effects is a good idea unless you don’t mind a pretty
If you feel you must have a picture on your desktop, bear in mind that doing so requires Active Desktop to be activated; those cute animated GIFs suck up even more resources. To zap those fancy visuals,
Figure 4 – Background Display
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