Disable or enable animation effects in Windows 11

If you have a modern, fast computer with Windows 11, animations are often no problem. Animations make Windows 11 more beautiful, smoother and provide a better user experience.

I therefore recommend leaving the animations enabled. However, if you Installed Windows 11 on an older PC, which, for example, does not comply with the Windows 11 minimum system requirements, then you may want to consider disabling animations.

Disabling animations in Windows 11 helps limit the impact on system resources. Windows 11 therefore uses fewer processes RAM memory and thus becomes one a bit faster. The disadvantage is that the user experience is reduced. For example, moving windows and making a window larger or smaller becomes wooden and less fluid.

It is therefore important if you are going to enable or disable animations that you first test whether this has the desired effect. This article shows you how to change the animations in Windows 11 in different ways.

Disable or enable animation effects in Windows 11

Enable or disable animation effects via Settings

The settings in Windows 11 provide insight into all kinds of functions and components in Windows. This way you can quickly switch the animation effects on or off via the settings.

Open Settings. Then click on “Accessibility” and then on “Visual effects”. In the visual effects you will find the option to enable or disable the animation effects by changing the slider to “off” or “on”.

The changes are immediately effective. You do not need to restart the computer.

Enable or disable animation effects via performance settings

In Windows 11, you can apply predefined performance settings to get the best performance, best display. Selecting a particular setting will either enable or disable features and help you – either get the best visual performance from your computer or achieve the best visual display.

In addition to the predefined one, Windows starts with an automatic display plan, and there is also an option to set a custom display plan. We will set this custom display plan to enable or disable the animation effects.

Click Search in the taskbar. Search for “display and performance”. Then click on the “Customize Windows appearance and performance” result.

In the “Performance Settings”, disable the following three options to change the visual animation effects:

• Animations on the taskbar.
• Move controls and other elements within windows.
• Window animations on minimize and maximize.

Click “apply” and then “OK”.

To customize more visual effects, read the following article: disable transparency effects in Windows 11.

I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!