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may actually make Windows slightly distracting. Here’s where you

can turn them off.

Automatically hide scroll bars in Windows. A scroll bar, of
course, is the traditional window-edge slider that lets you move

through a document that’s too big for the window. Without being
able to scroll, you’d never be able to write a letter that’s taller than
your screen.

But you may never need to scroll by dragging the scroll bar; you
can slide two fingers up the trackpad, or turn your mouse’s scroll
wheel, or press the Page Up and Page Down keys. That’s a long-

winded way of explaining why “Automatically hide scroll bars in
Windows” comes turned on, so your window gets more space for
your actual document, and the scroll bar is hidden.

Even if this feature is On, you can still bring the scroll bars into
view by moving the mouse to the window’s edge. The scroll bar
pops right up.

Show notifications for. Notifications, the rectangular bubbles
described in Chapter 2, pop in to remind you of something, or to let

you know that some new message has arrived—and then they
disappear. But, using this menu, you can control how long they
stick around before vanishing—from five seconds to five minutes

(a good setting if you’re really slow on the draw).

Show desktop background image. You know the wallpaper photo
or color you set up on Figure 4-1? With one click here, you can

replace it with solid black, presumably to make life more legible
for the hard-of-seeing. (Of course, you could also just choose solid

black as the background color in the first place.)

Personalize your background and other colors. Takes you to the

Background settings page (“Background, Colors, Themes, and
Fonts”).