## Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion by Sharon Crawford & Charlie Russel copyright (c) 2000 by Microsoft Corporation all rights reserved

Home Articles Utilities Software Electronic Book |  | Window Contents While Dragging By default, Windows 2000 enables what is sometimes known as a full-window drag (a trendy feature first made popular by the NextStep operating system, just in case you were curious), which means that instead of simply seeing an outline of a window that you’re moving or resizing; you see the full window contents. This requires some significant graphics processing. Even if you have a high-power display card, dragging or resizing windows while the content is displayed usually takes close to 100% of your computer’s processing power. Windows 2000 manages this well, but if you have a slow display card or some very important tasks that you don’t want to slow down - even temporarily (such as video capture, or other real-time operations), you should disable this feature. To do so, follow these steps: Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel Select Display. Go to the Effects tab. Under Visual Effects you can check or uncheck Show window contents while dragging to disable or enable this feature.