Policy

Do not allow window animations

This policy setting controls the appearance of window animations such as those found when restoring, minimizing, and maximizing windows. If you enable this policy setting, window animations are turned off. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, window animations are turned on. Changing this policy setting requires a logoff for it to be applied.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / Desktop Window Manager
Policy ID b78b1cc3f07b
Internal name DwmDisallowAnimations_2

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\DisallowAnimations (enabled) = 1
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\DisallowAnimations (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting controls the appearance of window animations such as those found when restoring, minimizing, and maximizing windows. If you enable this policy setting, window animations are turned off. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, window animations are turned on. Changing this policy setting requires a logoff for it to be applied.

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