You’ll find that the «Animate Windows when minimizing and maximizing» has been switched back on!!

• Is there a solution to this, or will we have too wait for Microsoft to come up with an fix (zzzzzzz. ) .

This definitely does not happen if the embedded hyperlink is to anon-office document / file

I’ve been suffering the same symptoms on both Win-XP & Win-7 at work, and have done a lot of Googling so there are many others suffering the same problem.

I’ve tried all the suggested methods to solve this — changing the values in registry keys like HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\AnimateMinMax and HKCU\ControlPanel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\MinAnimate to no avail.

The gpedit > Do not allow window animations does solve it, but it has the unwanted side effect of removing thevery useful feature (aeroPeak??) which displays the actual desktop Window of an application (hiding all but the window border outlines of other desktop windows) when you hover over its thumbnail on the TaskBar

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I can’t reproduce this using Word from Office 2010 in Windows 7 Ultimate 64
bit.

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> Stars: 1; Post: 3;
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>
> I turn off the «Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing» in
> SystemProperties>Advanced>Settings to stop the unwanted window animation
> when minimizing to & from the task-bar.
>
> This seems to get reset on an apparently random basis — it would stay set
> for a while, then for some reason would get resest so the unwanted windows
> animations returned. (This happens on both win-XP & win-7)
>
> I have at last found the culprit (but not the solution) and have confirmed
> this is the cause on both my Win-7 machine and also a colleague’s Win-XP
> machine.
>
>>>>It’s caused if you use a hyperlink within a MS-Office document, which is
>>>>a link to another Office document!
> Try it — create a hyperlink in a word document, to another word document,
> then
>
> 1.. In SystemProperties>Advanced>Performance Settings> Uncheck the
> «Animate Windows when minimizing and maximizing»
> 2.. Now click on the hyperlink to open the linked document. You’ll find
> that the «Animate Windows when minimizing and maximizing» has been
> switched back on!!
>
> a.. Is there a solution to this, or will we have too wait for Microsoft
> to come up with an fix (zzzzzzz. ) .
> This definitely does not happen if the embedded hyperlink is to
> anon-office document / file
>
> I’ve been suffering the same symptoms on both Win-XP & Win-7 at work, and
> have done a lot of Googling so there are many others suffering the same
> problem.
>
> I’ve tried all the suggested methods to solve this — changing the values
> in registry keys like
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\AnimateMinMax
> and HKCU\ControlPanel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\MinAnimate to no avail.
>
> The gpedit > Do not allow window animations does solve it, but it has the
> unwanted side effect of removing thevery useful feature (aeroPeak??) which
> displays the actual desktop Window of an application (hiding all but the
> window border outlines of other desktop windows) when you hover over its
> thumbnail on the TaskBar
>

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ive seen this problem on intel, ati and nvidia graphics devices so i think it to do with the os not the drivers

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It seems abit jumpy i’ve tryed change video drivers its still the same, i just disabled it will it be as smooth as it was in vista when windows 7 is released?

I experienced the same problem and did some testing on this in Build 7000.

It appears to be a graphics device driver issue. During testing, we noticed that turning off some of the eye candy options, such as transparency would help solve the problem.

The problem was finally fixed by an updated driver from the manufacturer.

This was seen on both nVidia and ATI graphics devices.

Hope this helps.

Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta

Windows 7 still installs with the worst possible performance options confiugred by default. Which causes all animations to be turned on; fading menus (if you turn on the ability to even see them), windows, etc. This makes most systems crawl from a performance standpoint. You would think that they would want the OS to run it’s best out of the box. But it installs with the exact oposite preferences configured.

Open up the System control panel
Select «Advanced System Settings» in the left hand list
Under the Performance sub item, select the Settings Button
Under Visual effects, select «Adjust for Best Performance»
Select OK on all open window dialog boxes

This has been a bug ever since XP came out with the «Fisher Price» interface (extremely large buttons, kindergarten fingerpaint theme’d windows, etc). And we still see reminants of it in Vista and now Win 7.

ive got not problem on my 2004 laptop. i dont know what to tell you

here is my system in case your wondering:

1.8 ghz processor
1 gb RAM
128 mb graphics card

ive seen this problem on intel, ati and nvidia graphics devices so i think it to do with the os not the drivers

The Misc. forum in this group has a ‘comments’ thread. You can add your experience, to help the dev team identify problems.

Yep I have this problem too with the 7100 RC and with relatively recent hardware. There’s a little hitch when closing windows and I really hate it. I’ve read on other forums that this problem happened with Vista RC’s as well and it disappeared in the RTM. Here’s hoping that’ll be the case here. I’ve sent some feedback to AMD on their Catalyst driver download page and I’ll continue to test each new driver that comes out until the RTM is out. So far the problem has existed for me with Catayst 9.4-9.6

Username01, the way it’s set is by design and not a bug even if you don’t like it. I like most of Aero’s eye-candy. They’re subtle and add to the experience, though not when they’re choppy so I hope this gets sorted.

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Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8GHz
Mushkin HP2-6400 DDR2-800 2x1GB
Sapphire AMD Radeon 4850 512MB
On-Board Realtek Sound

Disable Animate Windows when Minimizing and Maximizing in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable Animate Windows when Minimizing and Maximizing in Windows 10

Like all previous Windows versions, Windows 10 comes with a built-in option to disable the animations for minimizing and maximizing windows. Here is how to turn off the animations if you don’t like them.

By default, Windows 10 animates windows when you minimize and maximize them. When minimized to the taskbar, or restored from it, a window has a fade effect as it shrinks or grows.

While the animation is well optimized, and doesn’t consume plenty of system resources, some of users do not like it. When the animations are disabled, Windows 10 will instantly minimize and maximize app windows. The animations can be disabled (or enabled) using the GUI, or with a Registry tweak.

To Enable or Disable Animate Windows when Minimizing and Maximizing in Windows 10

1. Press Win + R shortcut keys together on your keyboard. The Run dialog will appear on the screen.
   Tip: See the ultimate list of all Windows keyboard shortcuts with Win keys.
2. Type the following in the Run box: SystemPropertiesAdvanced
3. Press Enter. This will open the Advanced System Properties window directly.
4. Click the Settings button under the Performance section. The Performance Options dialog will open.
5. Uncheck (disable) the option Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing. It is (checked) enabled by default.

You are done. The change affects the current user account only.

Alternatively, you can apply a Registry tweak.

Disable Window Animations when Minimizing and Maximizing in Registry

1. Open the Registry Editor app.
2. Go to the following Registry key.
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
   See how to go to a Registry key with one click.
3. On the right, modify or create a new string (REG_SZ) value MinAnimate .
4. Set its value to 0 to disable animations.
5. A value data of 1 will enable animations.
6. To make the changes done by the Registry tweak take effect, you need to sign out and sign in to your user account. Alternatively, you can restart the Explorer shell.

To save your time, you can download the following ready-to-use Registry files:

The undo tweak is included.

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ive seen this problem on intel, ati and nvidia graphics devices so i think it to do with the os not the drivers

The Misc. forum in this group has a ‘comments’ thread. You can add your experience, to help the dev team identify problems.

All replies

It seems abit jumpy i’ve tryed change video drivers its still the same, i just disabled it will it be as smooth as it was in vista when windows 7 is released?

I experienced the same problem and did some testing on this in Build 7000.

It appears to be a graphics device driver issue. During testing, we noticed that turning off some of the eye candy options, such as transparency would help solve the problem.

The problem was finally fixed by an updated driver from the manufacturer.

This was seen on both nVidia and ATI graphics devices.

Hope this helps.

Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta

Windows 7 still installs with the worst possible performance options confiugred by default. Which causes all animations to be turned on; fading menus (if you turn on the ability to even see them), windows, etc. This makes most systems crawl from a performance standpoint. You would think that they would want the OS to run it’s best out of the box. But it installs with the exact oposite preferences configured.

Open up the System control panel
Select «Advanced System Settings» in the left hand list
Under the Performance sub item, select the Settings Button
Under Visual effects, select «Adjust for Best Performance»
Select OK on all open window dialog boxes

This has been a bug ever since XP came out with the «Fisher Price» interface (extremely large buttons, kindergarten fingerpaint theme’d windows, etc). And we still see reminants of it in Vista and now Win 7.

ive got not problem on my 2004 laptop. i dont know what to tell you

here is my system in case your wondering:

1.8 ghz processor
1 gb RAM
128 mb graphics card

ive seen this problem on intel, ati and nvidia graphics devices so i think it to do with the os not the drivers

The Misc. forum in this group has a ‘comments’ thread. You can add your experience, to help the dev team identify problems.

Yep I have this problem too with the 7100 RC and with relatively recent hardware. There’s a little hitch when closing windows and I really hate it. I’ve read on other forums that this problem happened with Vista RC’s as well and it disappeared in the RTM. Here’s hoping that’ll be the case here. I’ve sent some feedback to AMD on their Catalyst driver download page and I’ll continue to test each new driver that comes out until the RTM is out. So far the problem has existed for me with Catayst 9.4-9.6

Username01, the way it’s set is by design and not a bug even if you don’t like it. I like most of Aero’s eye-candy. They’re subtle and add to the experience, though not when they’re choppy so I hope this gets sorted.

Gigabyte EP45-UD3L P45 Mobo
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8GHz
Mushkin HP2-6400 DDR2-800 2x1GB
Sapphire AMD Radeon 4850 512MB
On-Board Realtek Sound