User's Manual

Customize and Analyze
Animations
You can specify which animations should be displayed when
you work with windows and lists here.
Click Best Performance to disable all options that are only
eye candy. Click Restore Defaults to restore the original
Windows settings.
Menu Appearance
You can configure the appearance and behavior of context
menus and standard application menus here.
Under Animation, you can specify whether menus should
fade out when they close. You can also select a display effect
from a drop-down menu.
Under Effects, you can specify whether Windows should use
flat 2D menus or whether a small 3D shadow should be
displayed beneath an open menu.
Font Smoothing
In order to improve the readability of text on your computer,
you can select the font smoothing method that looks best to
you under this option.
The smoothing method ClearType is especially interesting. It
is designed for flat screen monitors (TFT and LCD) and
makes use of their so-called subpixels in order to effectively
smooth the edges of small fonts. Click ClearType Settings to
adapt these settings to your individual monitor.
Appearance Æ File Types
Menu Operations
In this tab, you can specify which entries should be shown in
the context menus for drives and folders. This can let you
open the command prompt directly under My Computer by
right clicking a folder, for example.
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