Turn on Avalon Effects

If you are into a flash looking Vista and don’t care at all about speed/performance then you may want to try enabling the avalon effects.

Before you turn on avalon you need to turn on the Aero desktop.

Once you have enabled Aero then you can turn on avalon;

  • Open regedit
  • Navigate to this location
    • HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer
  • Create a new DWORD and call it
    • MILDesktop
  • Set its value to 1
  • Create another DWORD and call it
    • MILExplorer
  • Set its value to 1
  • Reboot your computer

Slow Down the Windows Aero Animations

Do you run the Windows Aero desktop and you wanted a quick tweak that will slow down the animations by just using your shift key? Well here is the registry tweak that will let you do it;

1st - Backup Your Registry

  • Navigate to this location
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM
  • Create a new DWORD
  • Call it AnimationsShiftKey
  • Give it a value of 1
  • Close your regedit
  • You may need to logoff and logon for the change to work
  • You will find now that you can slow down the animations when you press your shift key