In Windows Vista and 7, whenever you copy, move or delete a file or folder, the progress dialog box shows an animated AVI as well as a cool animation in the progressbar as shown in following screenshot:
Sometimes you might face a problem when the dialog box doesnt show the AVI and the animation in progressbar which looks like shown in following screenshot:
If you are also facing this problem and want to enable the animation in progress dialog box, then follow this simple and small tutorial and your problem will be fixed:
1. Right-click on My Computer icon on Desktop and select Properties (or press <WIN> + <Pause/Break> key), click on Advanced system settings link in left side pane (You can also open it by typing sysdm.cpl in RUN or start menu search box and press Enter). Now click on Settings button in Performance section:
2. It'll open another window. Now make sure "Animate controls and elements inside windows" option is enabled. If its not enabled, enable it and click on "Apply" button.
3. That's it. It should solve your problem and you should be able to see the animations in progress dialog box.
NOTE: If you want to disable the animation intentionally, then just disable the above mentioned option and the animations will be disabled in progress dialog box.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Troubleshooting, Windows 7, Windows Vista.
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das
Hi there,
I have encountered a problem with disabled buttons for Workgroup and domain joining button with Windows XP when I tried to join on our P2P network. Is there any helpful idea from you to enable them. And also I am very keen to know how how these buttons can be disabled. Thanks for your time and help on this matter for me.
VG
^^ Which buttons are you talking about? Can you mention the dialog box or post any screenshot?
bamdad
hi, vishal, coulf you help me disabling the animations in xp's windows explorer? the flying little file from folder to folder and such? i'm not _that _ good at editing the registry..
thank you in advance,
bamdad
VG
^^ There is only one way to stop the animation. You'll need to edit shell32.dll file in Resource hacker and remove the AVI from dialog box.
bamdad
thanks, i'll dig into your tutorial then. :)
MM
Hey Vg can you please tell me where can I find those animation avi files in win 7, I mean in which dll file I can get those avi files . I had read all your hacking posts, you have posted how change to change the animation in Xp, but I can't change the animation in windows 7, plz tel about those hidden animation files in Windows7
VG
^^ Those AVIs are still in shell32.dll file but are encrypted and you can't see them.
MM
Is there any way that I can extract those AVIs and replace them with the different one ?
Plz tell me about this.
VG
^^ Sorry but no idea.