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when this option is turned on, Windows softens the curves, making

the text look more professional (or slightly blurrier, depending on
your point of view).

Show window contents while dragging. If this option is off, then

when you drag a window, only a faint outline of its border is
visible; you don’t see all the items in the window coming along for
the ride. As soon as you stop dragging, the contents reappear. If

this option is on, however, then as you drag a window across your
screen, you see all its contents, too—a feature that can slow the
dragging process on some machines.

Turn Off the Tiles in the Start Menu

You’re not stuck with the big square tiles, the last remaining visible gasp of
Windows 8. See Figure 1-13.

Monitor Settings

You wouldn’t get much work done without a screen on your computer. It

follows, then, that you can get more work done if you tinker with your
screen’s settings to make it more appropriate to your tastes and workload.

Most of the settings described here are waiting for you on the Display

settings screen. To get there, right-click the desktop; from the shortcut
menu, choose “Display settings.” (The long way: → → System →

Display.)

Brightness

If your PC has a keyboard, then the easiest way to adjust the brightness is to

use the special keys for that purpose; if it’s a tablet, you can use the Action
Center to adjust the brightness (Figure 2-30). But in a pinch, there’s also a
Brightness slider here in Display settings.