How To Hide Or Show Window Contents While Dragging in Windows 10

Do you want to hide or show window contents while dragging? If you are using an older or budget PC and are struggling with PC performance. Then you might find that turning off some of the graphical features in Windows 10 can help your PC run a little more smoothly. For example, if tapping and dragging a window causes PC stumbling or straggling. Then you can turn off the window contents view to limit the graphical processing load. In this article, we’ll discuss how to turn off window contents while dragging in Windows 10.

How To Hide Or Show Window Contents While Dragging In Windows 10:

The setting to turn off showing the window contents while dragging a window can be found in Performance Options.

Step 1:

Initially open Performance Options by hitting the Windows key.

Step 2:

Then input “Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows” and press enter.

Note: The Visual Effects tab contains lots of minor graphical choices that can be turned off to limit the load on the CPU.

Step 3:

If you want to turn off showing the contents of a window while dragging it. Simply unmark the checkbox titled “Show window contents while dragging”

Step 4:

Then tap “OK” or “Apply”.

Turning off this setting will stop Windows from moving the whole window as you tap and drag it from one place to another on the monitor. Rather than, an outline of where the window will end up will be displayed. Once you allow it to go, the window is moved across to fill the outline. This needs a lot less processing power also it is ideal if tapping and dragging windows caused performance problems before.