How to Disable Visual Styles to Increase Performance

View Tutorial Windows contains a lot of visual effects and elements that tend to use valuable resources that would otherwise be used for something useful, by disabling ome of those visual effects you will gain some performance that will add to the overall improvement of your machine. If you prefer to view a step-by step video click the flash icon

 

1.Go to ‘Start’ > Right-click on ‘My Computer’

2. Select ‘Properties’ from the drop-down menu


3.When the window opens, click the ‘Advanced’ tab

4. Under ‘Performace’ click ‘Settings’

5. Under ‘Visual Effects’ uncheck everything except the following:

Shadows under menus

Shadows under mouse pointers

Show transluscent selection rectangle

Use drop shadows for icons labels on desktop

Use visual styles on windows and buttons

6. If you really don’t care for visuals and you are really looking for performace, then click on ‘Adjust for Performance’ under Visual Effects.