You could also adjust visual animations by creating new registry entries but ONLY if you are comfortable doing so.
(I always suggest creating a restore or backing up the registry or both, before performing any tweaks!)
The Start Screen displays a pronounced animation effect when it first loads up after Windows startup. Subsequently, whenever you switch to it, it shows a smaller animation. If you want to control how the animation effect is used on the Start Screen, go to the following location in the Registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Grid]
Launcher_SessionLoginAnimation_OnShow=0
The DWORD above does not exist by default. If it is created and set to =1, the Start Screen will always use the more pronounced startup animation effect whenever it is switched to during a Windows session.
You can also control individual animation effects for the Start Screen by creating the following additional new DWORDS under the key above:
Launcher_SessionLogin_Icon_Offset=3000
The value above determines from how far the user account image at the top right will slide across the screen. Higher values mean the image will start further away and slide all the way to its resting place on the right.
Launcher_SessionLogin_IconText_Offset=100
The value above determines from how far the user account name at the top right, next to the account image, will slide across the screen. Higher values mean the user name will start further away and slide all the way to its resting place on the right.
Launcher_SessionLogin_Tower_Offset=500
Launcher_SessionLogin_IndividualTower_Offset=3000
The value above control how the tiles are spread across the screen. Higher values for the first and lower for the second will mean the tiles travel from right to left, and the opposite if the values are switched.
Experiment with the variables above to achieve the effect you are after. Note that you must have the Launcher_SessionLoginAnimation_OnShow=1 for any of the additional animation variables to work when switching to the Start Screen. Furthermore, all values must be assigned in Decimal view, not Hexadecimal view. To undo the changes, delete all of these newly created DWORDS to revert back to normal animation for the Start Screen.
