Slow-motion Aero Animations are a great way to add an extra layer of excitement and excitement to your videos. In Windows Vista, you can enable them by going to the Control Panel and clicking on the “Aero” tab. There you will find a list of all the devices that are enabled with Aero. You will need to select one of these devices and then click on the “Set as Default” button. Once this is done, your videos will start slow-motion automatically when you move your mouse or keyboard around.
To start with, you should note that this will only work if you are already able to run Windows Aero glass theme.
To activate this hack, you’ll need to first download and unzip this registry file, and then double-click it to add to the regisry. It will add two new values to the registry.
Now you can reboot to see the effect…
…or you could just open an administrator mode command prompt by typing cmd into the start menu search box, and then using the Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut to launch it in administrative mode. We’ll want to restart the Desktop Window Manager with these two commands:
Now you can see the slow motion animations by holding down the Shift key while minimizing or restoring a window. It’s a pity there’s no way to configure the speed of the animation.
I wish I had a picture or video to show here, but I don’t have the right setup yet to do that. I’ll probably update this article once I do.
