Sunday, August 31, 2008

Reducing animations in Windows XP

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics

Tweak: In the right pane, find the value name(if necessary create a String value and name it) MinAnimate

- Set the value to 0

For this tweak to take effect you may need to Logoff or Restart windows.

Disable Menu Bars

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{5b4dae26-b807-11d0-9815-00c04fd91972}

Tweak: Rename the key by placing a dash “-” in front of the GUID(i.e., {-5b4dae26-b807-11d0-9815-00c04fd91972})

Restart windows to take effect

Closing applications quicker

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Tweak: In the right pane find the value name WaitToKillAppTimeout

- Set the value to 0

For this tweak to take effect you may need to Logoff or Restart windows.