huh? are you on a 286 there?aMUSEd wrote:All of this fancy stuff impacts on performance to a degree. I tried the uxtheme.dll thing when I first upgraded to XP and kept getting clicks in Tassman. After loads of tweaking to try and fix it I shut down the themes service and reverted to classic and found this cured the clicks and saved quite a lot of CPU in some Tassman patches.
Using properly implemented VS shouldn't degrade performance one bit. Using shadows, transparencies and the fancy animations or fades will. Turning them off helps.
I suspect what you experience is simply tweakers placebo. (and I know a fair bit about that)