Windows 10: Enable or Disable Animate Controls and Elements Inside Windows

How to: Enable or Disable Animate Controls and Elements Inside Windows

How to Enable or Disable Animate Controls and Elements Inside Windows


By default, controls and elements use animation in Windows.

Some examples of controls and elements animation are:

• Slow fade effect of scrollbar arrows
• Slow fade effect of buttons and tabs on dialog boxes
• Cyclic pulsating effect on the default button

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable animate controls and elements for your account in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Enable or Disable Animate Controls and Elements Inside Windows in Visual Effects Performance Options
• Option Two: Enable or Disable Animations in Windows in Settings
• Option Three: Enable or Disable Animations in Windows in Control Panel

OPTION ONE [/i] Enable or Disable Animate Controls and Elements Inside Windows in Visual Effects Performance Options
1. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type SystemPropertiesPerformance.exe into Run, and click/tap on OK to directly open to the Visual Effects tab in Performance Options

2. Check (enable - default) or uncheck (disable) Animate controls and elements inside windows for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)









OPTION TWO [/i] Enable or Disable Animations in Windows in Settings

*note This option is only available in Windows 10.

This option will enable (check) or disable (uncheck) both Animate controls and elements inside windows and Option One.
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Ease of Access icon.

2. Click/tap on Display on the left side, and turn on (default) or off Show animations in Windows for what you want under Simplify and personalize Windows on the right side. (see screenshot below)

3. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.









OPTION THREE [/i] Enable or Disable Animations in Windows in Control Panel

*note This option will enable (check) or disable (uncheck) both Animate controls and elements inside windows and Option One.
1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Ease of Access Center icon.

2. Click/tap on either the Use the computer without a display, Make the computer easier to see, or Make it easier to focus on tasks link in the Ease of Access Center. (see screenshot below)



3. Check (disable) or uncheck (enable - default) Turn off all unnecessary animations (when possible), and click/tap on OK. (see screenshots below)








4. When finished, you can close the Ease of Access Center if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Change Visual Effects Settings in Windows 10
• How to Enable or Disable Animate Windows when Minimizing and Maximizing in Windows
• How to Enable or Disable Animations in the Taskbar in Windows 10

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After testing 明天的冬瓜's solution, I found that the task bar color only fails to update when the "Animate controls and elements inside windows" option is enabled.

Control Panel> System and Security> System> Advanced System Settings> "Advanced" Tab> Performance: "Settings..."> "Visual Effects" Tab> DISABLE "Animate controls and elements inside windows" check-box

 

Office disables Windows animations

I've had this problem with Office 2007 and still have it with Office 365 under Windows 10 on different computers. Under certain conditions, opening multiple Office documents stops Windows animations from working, even though Windows settings still shows
that animations are enabled.

To replicate the problem:

• In an Office document (I've tried it with both Excel and Word) insert a link to another Office document.
• Follow the link
• When the linked document opens, Windows animations no longer work - you need to go to Windows' Display settings and turn 'Show animations in Windows' off and back on again to restore animations.

Note:

• The problem is only apparent when linking from one Office document to another - linking to a PDF file, for example, does not cause this problem.
• I haven't checked whether ALL animations stop working - the one I've noticed for sure is the animation when switching from one virtual desktop to another.

Although not a life-threatening bug, this is still an inconvenience.

Moved to: Office/ Unknown/other / Windows 10 / Office 365 Home

 

How to disable UI animation in Windows 10 Mobile

How can I disable UI animations (like selecting an app from a list, launching an app etc.) in Windows 10 Mobile (10186.11)?

On desktop SKUs of Windows 10, it is in the System control panel - Advanced - Performance, and in the Settings app - Ease of Access - Other options. However, I could not find that setting in Windows 10 Mobile.

Is there a way how to turn it off? My eyes are not happy of these animations (disturbing, needs to constantly refocusing etc.).

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Office disables Windows animations

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

This can happen when Windows tries to choose performance over display/graphic effects. I would request you to follow the steps mentioned below:

Method 1: Disable hardware acceleration in Office

1. Start any Office program.
   

1. On the File tab, click Options.
2. In the Options dialog box, click Advanced.
3. In the list of available options, click to select the Disable hardware graphics acceleration check box.

Method 2: Update the graphic drivers: Please follow the steps mentioned in the article:

Update drivers in Windows 10 to update the graphic drivers.

Hope this helps.

 

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920, but I do not expect it should be phone model specific.

The issue is I could not find a way how to disable animations built in the Windows 10 Mobile UI like "Opening an application", "Returning to Start", "Opening an application from app list", "Returning to app list", "Settings animation", "Resuming background
app". To better understand what kind of animations I mean see .