can I permanently disable animated min max windows in XP?

[jonno]

My XP pro system is a dream for the most part. I spent 3 weeks trying to get W7 to work as quickly and found it sluggish and unstable, even after a clean install. I have one last sticky point in XP. I use XMPlayer for music playback and it constantly rechecks my visual settings to Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing. Is there some way to alter the registry so that is NEVER an option? I tried removing its key, but that didn't stop the process from happening, just the ability to uncheck it.

 

[agibby5]

Really? I thought W7 to be the best Windows release to date.... though, I use Ubuntu 90% of the time

 

[jonno]

that's what they say. not my personal experience however.

Ironically, I found a fix to my problem on the XMPlay Forum. It appears that I posted the same problem two years ago and eventually worked out the fix myself. Needed to switch output drivers from asio to direct sound. Part of the charm of aging...

 

[JackMDS]

I do not know what the difference is but I use XMPlay on Win7 too and it behaves the same as it is on WinXP.

BTW. I use the software on both case as a Portable application rather the Setup install.

The application is on C: in a Folder that I opened myself and copied the XMPlay Files into. The configuration is all in an INI file that is in the same folder and thus does Not involves the Registry.

I use this approach as a general approach when using applications that can be installed as portable, or have a save in *.INI only option. It seems to help with some applications that were written for XP and were not updated to Vista/Win7.