How to turn off visual effects in Windows 7 By Drew Mathers | August 24, 2015 1 1. Click: Start 2 2. Click: Control Panel 3a 3a. Click: System and Security (if Control Panel is set to Category View) 3b 3b. Click: System (if Control Panel is set to Category View) 3c 3c. Click: System (if Control Panel is set to Icon View) 4 4. Click: Advanced system settings 5 5. Click: [Settings…] (under the Performance heading) 6 6. Click: ( ) Adjust for best performance 7 7. Click: [OK] 8 8. Click: [OK] Posted in Supplemental