I’m not blind!
So I'm trying to figure out how to turn off the flying window animation in Vista, because it's interfering with something I'm trying to do. XP had a dialog that had the various visual effects the OS was capable of, and you could turn them on and off.
The equivalent dialog in Vista doesn't have a setting for this.
So after stumbling around the new control panel for a while (and using Search, which is seriously broken), I asked Google, which pointed me to this page.
In order to turn off the animated windows, you have to tell Vista that you're blind. Seriously. The steps to take are:
- Open the Control Panel.
- Open the Ease of Access Center (the one with the icon that looks like a wheelchair)
- Click on "Use the computer without a display" (subtitled "Optimize for blindness")
- Click "Turn off all unnecessary animations (when possible)".
I'll just leave it at that.