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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Actually... In theory, and I don't see why it wouldn't work, if it'll take -any- AVI, regardless of size/resolution/CRC/etc., then you could slip in an AVI consisting of 1 frame of nothing...it'd load quickly and be completely unnoticeable... This is getting into library hacking, but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Your Luck May Vary, so sez me.

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Another approach to this problem is to download Total Copy v1.1, available from ZDNet Downloads. Not only does Total Copy usually copy or move much, much faster than Windows (so much faster that you don't even see the flying paper unless you are moving an especially big file or a very large number of files), it also changes the Windows menu to give you a variety of additional options related to copying or moving files. Also on the plus side, it can be uninstalled if you are not happy with it and it is free.


On Wednesday, November 14, 2001 at 11:07 am, The Magnificent Linnard wrote:
>Actually...
>
>In theory, and I don't see why it wouldn't work, if it'll take -any- AVI, regardless
>of size/resolution/CRC/etc., then you could slip in an AVI consisting of 1 frame
>of nothing...it'd load quickly and be completely unnoticeable...
>
>This is getting into library hacking, but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Your
>Luck May Vary, so sez me.

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Win98: If you're starting with ResHacker, there's no problem to remove the animation completely. Just open shell32.dll with ResHacker, browse the dialogs until you find the copy dialog (it's 1020), and then use the dialog editor to change it to whatever you want. If you remove the avi object, it won't load the avi at all. Just remember to backup the DLL, in case you mess up or want it back.

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But it will work only if you turn off system file security first. Otherwise, Windows replace modified file with standart.

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