{"id":3771,"date":"2016-08-10T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:54:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:54:24","slug":"speed-windows-10-start-menu-disabling-animation-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/speed-windows-10-start-menu-disabling-animation-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Up Windows 10 Start Menu by Disabling Animation Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the visual effects turned on by default, Windows 10 Start menu may open a bit slow, caused by animation effect of the Start frame (window) as well as the animation of elements inside the Start menu.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UmT5o_NCMHc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Screen capture tool which I used could not clearly capture the animation effect of the elements in the Start menu for some reason<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>You can disable the following Visual effects to speed up display of Windows 10 Start Menu or Start screen.<\/p>\n<p>Right-click Start, click System. Click Advanced system settings. Under Performance, click Settings and uncheck the following options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Animate controls and elements inside windows<\/li>\n<li>Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/visual-effects-animation.png\" alt=\"disable animation start menu windows 10\" width=\"419\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3772\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The start menu, as well as your program windows will now load pretty fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the visual effects turned on by default, Windows 10 Start menu may open a bit slow, caused by animation effect of the Start frame (window) as well as the animation of elements inside the Start menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4065,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/fix-mouse-scroll-not-working-start-menu-apps-windows-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":3771,"position":0},"title":"[Fix] Mouse Scroll Not Working in Start Menu All Apps in Windows 10","author":"Ramesh","date":"September 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're unable to use the mouse scroll wheel in Windows 10 Start menu All Apps list, this has to do with the \"Scroll inactive windows\" Mouse setting.When you click Start, the Start menu All apps list appears by default (since the Anniversary Update) but focus is not set to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Windows 10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Windows 10","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/category\/microsoft\/windows\/windows-10\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Start menu all apps scroll inactive windows","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/w10-scroll-inactive-windows-mouse-2.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/w10-scroll-inactive-windows-mouse-2.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/w10-scroll-inactive-windows-mouse-2.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3304,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/take-screenshot-windows-different-ways-prnt-scrn\/","url_meta":{"origin":3771,"position":1},"title":"Take Screenshot in Windows 10 Using Different Ways","author":"Ramesh","date":"June 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In any version of Windows, the PrintScreen key captures the screen to the clipboard, which can then be pasted in Paint or any image editor and saved to a file. 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