Full screen or windowed mode for casual games?

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funny enough, on my main system, dx7 games perform better in windowed than in fullscreen. this holds for some dx9 ones as well (LOTRO for example performs nearly twice as good in windowed, where MSN Messenger Plus desktop overlay impacts it?!)

The second reason (above the one I mentioned on top) I only play games with windowed mode is that I often need to communicate to study comrades, my girlfriends or programmers and the like ... so its a good thing to be able to have the game and msn side a side