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[bonjonno]

I'm using ver 3.4.2 on XP Pro SP2. It took a long time to id XMPlay as the culprit. When I open it and then close it, it causes "animate windows when minimizing and maximizing" to be checked. It totally drives me nuts. I don't want visual animation. I am using WMP10 v2 skin, tho I don't think that would matter. Anyone heard of this bug and know a fix?

[Rah'Dick]

I'm having this on my PC with Adobe Audition 2.0. Start, close, animation is turned on.
I tried write-protecting the registry entry for that, but it didn't have any effect. I'm looking for a fix, too, but haven't found any useful advice as of yet.
Seems to be a Windows bug, unrelated to XMPlay or Audition. Would be nice to have a solution, tho.

[bonjonno]

Rah'Dick- thanks for the input. I used to have this problem on my last computer which was setup pretty much like my new one. But I never was able to track down the source- thought it had something to do with my envy24 audio driver. Or a combination of clicks having to do with audio properties. But now I'm sure it is starting and closing XMPlay that triggers it for me.

I've not used adobe audition 2.0 but I see it's compatible with asio driven devices. Perhaps asio is behind this. For my XMPlay output I use ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver. I believe it is a driver that came with my Cubase LE. I opened up the ASIO driver setup in Cubase LE and closed it and AHA! it switched on my animation. So I'm getting closer to the root. Too bad it's the best ASIO driver I've used; much better than asio4all which always gave me headaches.

I switched to ASIO Multimedia Driver for Output; think that's the XMP plugin. Animation problem gone!! Solved my own problem thanks to your info. Although I have only XMP drivers in its folder, when I view output options, there are a half dozen other choices from various software I use.

[Zarggg]

For those of us who have no idea what you are talking about, could you clarify this?

[Tsorovan]

Something turns this on for me too now and then, but I'm not sure what.

[Rah'Dick]

For those of us who have no idea what you are talking about, could you clarify this?

You know those pesky "Animate Windows" option that makes your windows animate when you minimise or restore them, or that fades your menus? I consider those animations an annoying waste of time and switch them off as first thing after installing Windows. Yet there are some programs that re-enable that setting on their own. Annoying as hell.

[raina]

Wow, seems like this phenomenon is, well if not common, not a one off either. Yet I have never witnessed it although I spend a considerable amount of time eliminating various Windows annoyances on computers I use.