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PowerToys do not respect Windows animation settings

See original GitHub issue

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19587.1000]
PowerToys version: 0.16.0
PowerToy module for which you are reporting the bug (if applicable): FancyZones, Window Walker

Steps to reproduce

Disable animations in windows:

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Expected behavior

All fade-in, hover, etc. effects in FancyZones and Window Walker should be disabled. Pretty much all MS programs support this, including Office and Edge Chromium.

Actual behavior

The setting is ignored.

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:9
  • Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

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5reactions
coderbcommented, Jul 16, 2020

+1 when using fancyzones over remote desktop the zone fade in animation is very slow and unnecessary.

3reactions
dmpacecommented, Sep 22, 2020

Yep, came here to say the same thing. Glad someone else reported it. FancyZones is very difficult over a Remote Desktop connection with any latency (long distance WAN over VPN, etc.) due to this.

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