OK, you may not be able to turn them off, but you
might be able to change the animation. The following
is untested so if you do the following you do so at your
own risk. :0)

Visit http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker/
and download "Resource Hacker". Nothing to install, just
unzip and run. Locate "Shell32.dll" in your system
folder and open it. On the left is a list of folders,
expand the folder called "AVI". In each of the folders
is an AVI clip of flying paper, select the one you want
and save it to your desktop. Edit this AVI file, i 
recommend making it a one frame AVI if you want rid
of it. Then simply replace the MS one with it and save.

You can delete the AVI from the file, but i don't know
what windows will do if it can't locate the animation,
BSoD probably :0)

Please make a backup of "Shell32.dll" so you can
go into DOS and put it back if windows goes tits up :0)

This is untested by me as i'm a chicken, actually i like
the animation, came across a GIF where a stick figure
grabs the paper and wipes its arse with it, might turn
that into an AVI and add it :0)

This should work for all windows versions.

Thanks for reading my ramblings.

Marc :0)

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