Disable Minimize and Maximize Animations in Windows 7

'm a stickler for functionality, and although bells and whistles are nice to look at, if they don't do anything to increase the performance of my computer, I don't want 'em!

For example, Windows 7 has a neat shrinky/growy animation whenever you minimize or maximize a window, but does it really help anything?

Nope.

So let's disable it!

Click Start>Control Panel and navigate to System and Security>System. Click “Advanced System Settings” off to the left.

Under “Performance” click the “Settings” button.

Select the Custom option and un-check the box next to “Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing.”



Click “OK” and you're done