Windows animations, do you disable them?

[oali24]

So guys, from windows 10 and up I have been disabling animations in windows 10, and honestly I did not realise just how much it can make your computer more usable, especially on computers with low perfomance. But I do this even on computers with very good specifications because I honestly think that if you are very familiar with using windows animations are totally pointless, like sure the animation maybe gives the users some sense of where say a window may go when you minimise it but when you have experience and using the os is second nature you already know where your ui elements go and where they are supposed to be.

 

Does anyone else feel similarly?

[RONOTHAN##]

On my main machine, I don't bother, it's overkill enough that it's only gonna get 1% better performance at best and I'd rather have the OS be a bit more pretty. 

 

On my test benches, it's a bit more complicated. I still don't do it all the time, it's just not worth the effort for the most part, but if I'm doing some competitive benchmarking or trying to run 10+ year hardware I do occasionally fully strip down the OS of all animations. 

[Guest]

I always do simply because its needless eye candy and fulfills no important function. Now if it took more than a couple of key presses I won't bother.

[SansVarnic]

You may disable them here. Select the toggle "show animations"

 

[Levent]

I disable all animations and features I have no use for.

Last I checked, I had everything but three options disabled in the "performance" menu. I also disable transparency effect because I do not like it.

[oali24]

2 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

On my main machine, I don't bother, it's overkill enough that it's only gonna get 1% better performance at best and I'd rather have the OS be a bit more pretty. 

 

On my test benches, it's a bit more complicated. I still don't do it all the time, it's just not worth the effort for the most part, but if I'm doing some competitive benchmarking or trying to run 10+ year hardware I do occasionally fully strip down the OS of all animations. 

To clarify, I turn off animations because they make the computer feel faster, unless your hardware is really weak I'm sure the percentage of ram/cpu are only going to be like 1%, its just that it feels way more than 1% faster, at least to me.

[oali24]

14 hours ago, LloydLynx said:

Disabling all that stuff no longer disables desktop compositing since Windows 8 and onwards, so the performance impact is basically none even on weak hardware. For some people it does make the computer feel more snappy. But I like eye candy. If I used Windows, I'd keep everything enabled. 

yeah that's why I said more usable and not faster.