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Old October 12th 16, 12:44 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
GlowingBlueMist[_6_]
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Default "Play animations in Windows" turns off after every reboot

A relative has a W10 Pro system, Version 10.0.14393. She wants the
"Play animations in Windows" option set to on no matter what. It seems
the default must be configured for Off somewhere. If I set it to On the
animation works, but just until a system reboot, then it goes back to Off.

1) I have tried going into Control Panel|Personalization|Ease of Access
Center|Other Options and turned on the Play animations in Windows option
to On. After a reboot it is back to Off.

2) Tried Control Panel|System||Advanced system settings|Performance
Settings and tried Adjust for best appearance, tried Custom and turned
on all the options. No change, then added step #1 again and no change.
Animation works until the next reboot.

3) Tried changing the following registry setting to a 1 which I am told
is supposed to turn on the windows animations.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowsMetrics\MinAnimate to a 1
then exited the registry and rebooted the PC. The registry setting
stays set to a 1 but the animation is non-functional. A visit to step
#1 finds the "Play animations in Windows" option is once again set to Off.

Anyone else run into this and been able to force W10 to leave the "Play
animations in Windows" option set to On especially after a PC reboot?
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Old October 12th 16, 01:38 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
David B[_3_]
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Default "Play animations in Windows" turns off after every reboot

On 12-Oct-16 12:44 PM, GlowingBlueMist wrote:
A relative has a W10 Pro system, Version 10.0.14393. She wants the
"Play animations in Windows" option set to on no matter what. It seems
the default must be configured for Off somewhere. If I set it to On the
animation works, but just until a system reboot, then it goes back to Off.

1) I have tried going into Control Panel|Personalization|Ease of Access
Center|Other Options and turned on the Play animations in Windows option
to On. After a reboot it is back to Off.

2) Tried Control Panel|System||Advanced system settings|Performance
Settings and tried Adjust for best appearance, tried Custom and turned
on all the options. No change, then added step #1 again and no change.
Animation works until the next reboot.

3) Tried changing the following registry setting to a 1 which I am told
is supposed to turn on the windows animations.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowsMetrics\MinAnimate to a 1
then exited the registry and rebooted the PC. The registry setting
stays set to a 1 but the animation is non-functional. A visit to step
#1 finds the "Play animations in Windows" option is once again set to Off.

Anyone else run into this and been able to force W10 to leave the "Play
animations in Windows" option set to On especially after a PC reboot?


Have you looked in Microsoft Edge Settings?

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Old October 12th 16, 06:57 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
GlowingBlueMist[_6_]
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Default "Play animations in Windows" turns off after every reboot

On 10/12/2016 7:38 AM, David B wrote:
On 12-Oct-16 12:44 PM, GlowingBlueMist wrote:
A relative has a W10 Pro system, Version 10.0.14393. She wants the
"Play animations in Windows" option set to on no matter what. It seems
the default must be configured for Off somewhere. If I set it to On the
animation works, but just until a system reboot, then it goes back to
Off.

1) I have tried going into Control Panel|Personalization|Ease of Access
Center|Other Options and turned on the Play animations in Windows option
to On. After a reboot it is back to Off.

2) Tried Control Panel|System||Advanced system settings|Performance
Settings and tried Adjust for best appearance, tried Custom and turned
on all the options. No change, then added step #1 again and no change.
Animation works until the next reboot.

3) Tried changing the following registry setting to a 1 which I am told
is supposed to turn on the windows animations.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowsMetrics\MinAnimate to a 1
then exited the registry and rebooted the PC. The registry setting
stays set to a 1 but the animation is non-functional. A visit to step
#1 finds the "Play animations in Windows" option is once again set to
Off.

Anyone else run into this and been able to force W10 to leave the "Play
animations in Windows" option set to On especially after a PC reboot?


Have you looked in Microsoft Edge Settings?

If you mean to use the search bar for look for animations, it just takes
me to the same place as my #1 and with the same results.
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Old October 13th 16, 10:48 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default "Play animations in Windows" turns off after every reboot

GlowingBlueMist wrote:
On 10/12/2016 7:38 AM, David B wrote:
On 12-Oct-16 12:44 PM, GlowingBlueMist wrote:
A relative has a W10 Pro system, Version 10.0.14393. She wants the
"Play animations in Windows" option set to on no matter what. It seems
the default must be configured for Off somewhere. If I set it to On the
animation works, but just until a system reboot, then it goes back to
Off.

1) I have tried going into Control Panel|Personalization|Ease of Access
Center|Other Options and turned on the Play animations in Windows option
to On. After a reboot it is back to Off.

2) Tried Control Panel|System||Advanced system settings|Performance
Settings and tried Adjust for best appearance, tried Custom and turned
on all the options. No change, then added step #1 again and no change.
Animation works until the next reboot.

3) Tried changing the following registry setting to a 1 which I am told
is supposed to turn on the windows animations.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowsMetrics\MinAnimate to a 1
then exited the registry and rebooted the PC. The registry setting
stays set to a 1 but the animation is non-functional. A visit to step
#1 finds the "Play animations in Windows" option is once again set to
Off.

Anyone else run into this and been able to force W10 to leave the "Play
animations in Windows" option set to On especially after a PC reboot?


Have you looked in Microsoft Edge Settings?

If you mean to use the search bar for look for animations, it just takes
me to the same place as my #1 and with the same results.


It's a bit of information overload in there.

I used ProcMon and spotted two references (while using
"Play Animations".

UserPreferencesMask and MinAnimate.

The TechNet article I grabbed had the wrong hex constant,
so I must have the wrong OS. However, I did find a
Tenforums tutorial on the topic, that introduces a VisualEffects item.

UserPreferencesMask

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../cc957204.aspx

HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\UserPreferencesMask

"Default" 0x80003E9E

Actual! Data 90 12 07 80 12 00 00 00

My actual data is a format match for what is on Tehforums.
My values are different.

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6...dows-10-a.html

Bit 31 is probably the MSbit now. Bit 63 maybe.

Bit 31 UI Effects (combo box animation,
cursor shadow, gradient captions,
hot tracking, list box smooth scrolling,
menu animation, menu underlines,
selection fade, tool tip animation) are enabled.

This is the second one I saw written by SystemSettings.

HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\MinAnimate
It was set to zero when I turned it off.

This is the one Tenforums references, and maybe the OS
checks this one first, and modifies the UserPreferencesMask
based on this ? A value of one, "best appearance", likely
has max animations.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\VisualEffects
Type 0 (zero) for Let Windows choose what's best for my computer settings.
Type 1 for Adjust for best appearance settings.
Type 2 for Adjust for best Performance settings.
Type 3 for Custom settings.

I think it needs more registry settings :-\
As Jobs would have said, it's not magical
unless it has more registry settings.

It looks like hours of fun for a motivated tech.
All that rebooting and such.

Paul
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Old October 14th 16, 03:23 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
GlowingBlueMist[_6_]
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Default "Play animations in Windows" turns off after every reboot

On 10/13/2016 4:48 AM, Paul wrote:
Snip
I used ProcMon and spotted two references (while using
"Play Animations".

UserPreferencesMask and MinAnimate.

The TechNet article I grabbed had the wrong hex constant,
so I must have the wrong OS. However, I did find a
Tenforums tutorial on the topic, that introduces a VisualEffects item.

UserPreferencesMask

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../cc957204.aspx

HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\UserPreferencesMask

"Default" 0x80003E9E

Actual! Data 90 12 07 80 12 00 00 00

My actual data is a format match for what is on Tehforums.
My values are different.


http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6...dows-10-a.html


Bit 31 is probably the MSbit now. Bit 63 maybe.

Bit 31 UI Effects (combo box animation,
cursor shadow, gradient captions,
hot tracking, list box smooth scrolling,
menu animation, menu underlines,
selection fade, tool tip animation) are enabled.

This is the second one I saw written by SystemSettings.

HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\MinAnimate
It was set to zero when I turned it off.

This is the one Tenforums references, and maybe the OS
checks this one first, and modifies the UserPreferencesMask
based on this ? A value of one, "best appearance", likely
has max animations.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\VisualEffects
Type 0 (zero) for Let Windows choose what's best for my computer
settings.
Type 1 for Adjust for best appearance settings.
Type 2 for Adjust for best Performance settings.
Type 3 for Custom settings.

I think it needs more registry settings :-\
As Jobs would have said, it's not magical
unless it has more registry settings.

It looks like hours of fun for a motivated tech.
All that rebooting and such.

Paul

Thanks Paul, looks like I'll have to go at it the hard way.
 




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