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Hi,
Does anyone know why, when i try to minimise the last page displayed on the monitor, it comes down to the taskbar very slowly. What could be the reason? Is it the wallpaper? Is there any settings that i have to change so that it gets back to normal?
thanks for any replies,
Newbie

[Kyle Burns]

Do you use Internet Explorer Wallpaper?

[Cakkie]

This could be the wallpaper indeed. You might not know it, but windows uses quite some CPU-power (sometimes up to 90%!) just to set and keep the wallpaper on your desktop. When other apps overlap the wallpaper, the is no need to repaint it, so all the apps will mimimize quite fast. However, the last one minimized forces windows to repaint the wallpaper, and do this as long as it's visible. This will also result in you not beeing able to do something for that amount of time. Also, there where most wallpapers are bitmap (big ones), this might take a few sec, depending on the speed op your computer. When using an active desktop (like the one that came with win89/2000) it is even slower.

Tom Cannaerts
slisse@planetinternet.be

The best way to escape a problem, is to solve it.

If you want it to go a lot faster, dont put any picture on the desktop at all, if you dont have enough computer power. Just right click, goto properties and goto the tab backround, and goto the button called "pattern" and edit a pattern and make it black, and set that pattern as your desktop, without a desktop image. just blank BLACK

[Derek]

Hi,
Just wanted to thank all the guy's who replied to this article.
Thanks alot.
Derek