Slartybart said:
Ok, glad you were able to 'sort it out' by moving up to Win8. I've been using Win8.1 for 3/4 of a year and find going back to Win7 (native Win8 Hyper-V machine) a bit clunky - Win8 is faster and MS has vastly improved the Windows Update process for devices - it works 99.9% of the time, whereas devices only worked 80% of the time in Win7 (mostly AMD and touchpad 'failures' requiring a rollback).

I only use the modern side of Win8.1 for the program menu, most apps are 'duplicates' of Desktop applications, and I find that the Desktop versions provide better depth.

As far as defining the animation or other visual effects - no, I don't know of any way to slow down or speed up animations. I have a minimalist configuration - only a few things that I like. No slides, no fades, no animations, no shadows .....

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Yeah meant to change it not disable it, I'm back on 7 though as 8 was having some issues with my hardware and all things like memory speed was faster in 7 for some reason. 7 is all set and good now and this thread is officially over.

Thanks for all the help everyone.