Disable Animations on Windows 11 and When You Need to Do It
| Disable Animations on Windows 11 and When You Need to Do It |
Windows 11 includes a lot of visual effects such as animations, transparent lines, soft shadows, fades, and many other visual effects in order to make the user experience more comfortable and easy, but all these visual effects consume a large amount of resources, which may be the reason for slowing down the computer. Therefore, you may need to disable animations on Windows 11 to speed up the device's performance.
Disable animations on Windows 11
Animations and visual effects affect the performance of computers, especially those that are old or do not have strong technical specifications. If you notice that your device is slowing down or showing any signs of lag or stuttering while using your computer, this may be due to the operating system consuming a large amount of device resources. If you want to speed up Windows and boost computer performance without any external programs, you will have to disable animations on Windows 11.
The good news is that disabling animations on Windows 11 won’t affect your user experience in any way. In fact, you may not even notice that you’ve disabled these effects since they don’t significantly affect the image and visual experience, but rather just affect the speed of your computer. Therefore, disabling them may help speed up your system and make your user experience smoother. Let’s show you through the following lines how to disable animations on Windows 11 and fix slow device issues.
■ The first method: via the settings panel
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| How to disable animations on Windows |
The first way to disable animations on Windows 11 is through the Settings panel . However, the Settings panel only allows you to disable animations. If you want to disable all visual effects that are not important even though they consume a large amount of system resources, move on to the next paragraph.
First, click on the shortcut " Win + I " or right-click on the Windows logo icon and choose " Settings " from the context menu. After that, click on the "Accessibility" option from the list of options that appear in front of you on the left side of the settings panel. Then from the right side, click on the "Visual Effects" option and disable the indicator in front of the " Animation Effects " feature as you can see from the previous example image.
You can also disable the “ Transparency Effects ” feature if you want to disable the background transparency that sometimes appears behind the image or behind the bottom taskbar. Although these are very simple features, disabling them positively affects the performance of the system. At first, you will notice that the system becomes a little slower in opening or switching between windows, as if you reduced the refresh rate of the screen. But in reality, disabling these features enhances the performance of the computer and the operating system when used in heavy, resource-hungry tasks. Disabling these features gives the system extra space for resources to be used in more demanding tasks such as games or heavy-duty programs such as photo and video editing and 3D design.
■ The second method: via the control panel
While the previous method may be useful and more than enough for most people, the second method takes you a step further than disabling all visual effects that may be slowing down your system or consuming extra computer resources unnecessarily. The second method will force us to rely on the Control Panel settings and controls .
But as we just mentioned, this is the best way to go if you want to disable all visual effects that are hogging your computer resources for no reason or making your system slower to handle programs. However, we don’t recommend disabling all visual effects for people with powerful computers. Just when you need to free up every extra drop of your computer’s resources to improve its performance with more demanding tasks.
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| Why You Might Need to Disable Animations on Windows |
To do this, left-click on the Windows logo icon on the taskbar. In the top search bar, start searching for “Control Panel”. Click on the first link “ System and Security ”. In front of the “ System ” link, click on the “ Allow remote access ” button.
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| The best way to improve computer performance |
A pop-up window titled “ System Properties ” will appear . Click on the “ Advanced ” tab from the tabs at the top. In front of the “ Performance ” section, click on the “ Settings ” button. Another slightly longer pop-up window titled “ Performance Options ” will appear. This window gives you a variety of operating modes for the system, such as power saving modes.
By default, the system settings are set to Balanced mode, where the system is responsible for determining when to disable or enable animations. The second mode allows you to enable visual effects permanently. But what we need now is the third mode. So, we should choose the “ Adjust for best performance ” mode. This is the best operating mode that asks the system to disable all visual effects, including animations, transparent backgrounds, fonts, shadows, and everything else.
You can even choose the “ Custom ” mode if you want to disable a certain set of visual effects and leave the rest working as is. But if you want the best possible performance from your system, you should enable the “ Adjust for best performance ” mode. And that’s pretty much it. Remember to click the “ Apply ” button and then “ Ok ” to save the new changes. Also, it doesn’t hurt to restart your computer to make sure the system cache is cleared of any instructions related to animations and visual effects.
■ The third method: via Microsoft's PC Manager program
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| The benefit of the Microsoft PC Manager program |
If you don't notice any positive difference in your computer's performance, you might want to consider using an app like PC Manager . We've explained everything about it in a separate article titled My Experience with Microsoft's New PC Manager App to Improve Windows Performance . This simple app fixes a lot of system problems, cleans cache, checks system health, cleans RAM, and frees up a lot of storage space by deleting files that are no longer necessary for the system or the user, updates, and old Windows files.
All you have to do is search for “PC Manager” in the taskbar search bar and launch the application. After that, click the “Boost” button and the program will start working. It is worth noting that the application will delete any files in the Recycle Bin, so remember to back up the files in it (if necessary). You can also use it to kill programs running in the background before starting to play games or work on resource-hungry business programs. If you do not have the application on your device, you can download it from the link attached above.
Conclusion Disabling animations on Windows 11 may be one of the top priorities for owners of weak computers. It takes a lot of pressure off your computer, but you may not notice this change unless your device is really weak. You can also consider using some programs that claim to be able to speed up your computer’s performance, such as CCleaner.