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Unread 11-10-2011, 06:31 PM
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Blizzard games like Starcraft 2 have this "desktop fullscreen" mode where you can instantly alt-tab to other applications, and play the game without any distracting window "chrome".

LOTRO's windowed mode comes with the ugly window chrome, plus the titlebar which uses up space at the top of the screen.

If you don't want the window frame around your game, you have to play fullscreen. But then every time you alt-tab to your email or to answer a Skype message etc. it takes half a second, and on some computers even more because Windows has a tendency to put the desktop on the virtual memory when it is not used.

The tip I posted above lets you run the game without the window "chrome", and maintain instant access to chat programs, browser etc.
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