Here's our Tip for.. June 13, 2001
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Turn Off Window Animation
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Ever notice that when you minimize or restore a window, you actually see the window-shrinking (or reverse) process? If you're looking to increase performance, remove this "window animation." Your windows will grow and shrink faster than ever.

This technique involves editing the Registry. As always, we recommend backing up your Registry files--System.dat and User.dat, hidden files on the root of your hard drive--before proceeding.

Open the Registry Editor--select Start, Run, type

regedit

and click OK--and navigate your way to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics. In the left pane, right-click the WindowMetrics key and select New, String Value. Type

MinAnimate

to name the new value and press Enter. In the right pane, right-click MinAnimate and select Modify. In the resulting Edit String dialog box, type

0

on the Data Value line. Click OK, close the Registry Editor, and restart Windows 98.

If you want your window animation back, delete the MinAnimate string (right-click it, select Delete, then click Yes to confirm), or change its data value to 1 (right-click it, select Modify, type 1 on the Value Data line, then click OK).

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