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Background

desktop video/animation, 51-52

logon screen, 15

Windows Sidebar, 54-55

Background Intelligent Transfer, 167

Balloon Help

disabling, 27

functions of, 27

Balloon notification, disabling, 44

Balloon Tips, disabling, 41

Base Filtering Engine, 167

Bass Boost, 112-13

Battery meter, hiding icon, 43

Benchmarking

PCMark05 Basic Edition, 149-51

Windows System Performance Rating, 149-51

Big Screen Headlines RSS Reader, 124

Biometric sensor equipment, disabling, 163

BIOS

changing settings, 154

drive boot order, changing, 154-56

functions of, 153-54

Quick Boot, 156-57

BitLockerDrive Encryption, 269-73

functions of, 269-70

hard drive configuration for, 270-71

hardware requirements, 270

running, 271-72

TPM chip for, 269-70

with USB storage device, 273

Block Level Backup Engine, 167

Bluetooth Support, 167

Boot Configuration Data Editor

accessing, 157

default OS, setting, 159

Boot screen, customizing, 3-7

hidden boot screen, activating, 3-5

high-resolution screen/creating, 5-7

and MUI (multilingual user interface), 5

Boot speed, improving, 153-82

boot files, optimizing location of, 179-82

boot screen, disabling, 159, 161

defragmenting for, 179-82

drive boot order, changing, 154-56

fonts, removing, 164-66

hardware, disabling, 162-64

Quick Boot, 156-57

services, disabling, 166-79

VistaBootPro, 160

Windows Boot Manager, modifying, 157-60

Borders, changing, Aero Glass, 74-75

Browsers. See Firefox; Internet Explorer 7

Browsing history, clearing, 293-94