Animate Windows turns itself on

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Chris May

I must have gone to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced Tab -> Performance ->
Settings a half dozen times now and unchecked "Animate windows when minimizing
and maximizing," but it keeps getting rechecked for some unknown reason. Any
ideas what might be causing this and how I can keep that silly animation turned
off?

Nobody has access to this computer except me.

Thanks.
ChrisM
 
Have you access to Windows XP TweakUI PowerToy?

If so, open it, click on General, and check/uncheck what you want/don't
want.

OR

the registry key name for the logged in user is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics

and change MinAnimate to 0
 
| Have you access to Windows XP TweakUI PowerToy?
|
| If so, open it, click on General, and check/uncheck what you want/don't
| want.
|
| OR
|
| the registry key name for the logged in user is:
|
| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
|
| and change MinAnimate to 0

Thanks, but I've done both of those things to no avail. I just had to go back
and uncheck "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing" a few minutes ago.
This is getting very annoying. Something is evidently overriding both of those
settings.

ChrisM
 
When you say resets itself ... automatically while logged in ... or after a
reboot and everything is back?

Have you tried this is Safe Mode and monitor the Registry field to see if it
changes on it's own.

You can use a Registry monitoring tool, RegMon, from www.sysinternals.com
that will monitor everything being done to the registry.
You could then see, what application is causing the switch.

I use this all the time, and have learned so much on how Windows XP uses the
Registry and what apps look at what fields to determine how to run.
 
| When you say resets itself ... automatically while logged in ... or after a
| reboot and everything is back?
|
| Have you tried this is Safe Mode and monitor the Registry field to see if it
| changes on it's own.
|
| You can use a Registry monitoring tool, RegMon, from www.sysinternals.com
| that will monitor everything being done to the registry.
| You could then see, what application is causing the switch.
|
| I use this all the time, and have learned so much on how Windows XP uses the
| Registry and what apps look at what fields to determine how to run.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Unfortunately, nothing is happening that's immediately obvious to "reincarnate"
the check beside "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing" in System
Properties -> Advanced tab -> Performance -> Settings button. The change I made
in the Registry is still in place as is the TweakUI setting, both of which
should kill windows animation. Neither rebooting nor starting XP causes that
check to reappear.

I noticed the animation first several weeks ago. Nothing new had been installed
except XP updates and AVG antivirus updates.

However, I just stumbled across a suspicious item in the Registry. It's in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Visual
Effects\AnimateMinMax. Among several entries there, DefaultValue shows "1." As
much as I dislike messing around with the Registry unless I'm 100% sure of what
I'm doing, I'm very tempted to change that default setting to "0" to see if it
makes a difference.

What do you think?

ChrisM
 
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