Policy

Do not allow window animations

Microsoft Windows

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Do not allow window animations
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Desktop Window Manager
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

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.

Internal name
DwmDisallowAnimations_2
Policy ID
b78b1cc3f07b
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DWM
Value name
DisallowAnimations
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DWM
Value name
DisallowAnimations
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.