Turn off the Flying Paper Animations Intended For Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows Me Windows 98 Windows 95 When copying, moving, and deleting files, a cute little animation is displayed, showing a little piece of paper flying through the air. It sometimes takes longer to load this animation than it takes to carry out the desired operation - why is this useless window displayed when deleting a single file? At any rate, there is no way (yet) to turn off the cute flying paper animations. No solution. This article has been recently supported by and featured on this Internet Webhosting Guide Written by: Annoyances.org Last updated: Saturday, August 11, 2001 Care to discuss this article with other Windows users? Select your operating system here, and click Continue to post your question. - Choose your OS -Windows 7Windows Server 2008Windows VistaWindows Server 2003Windows XPWindows 2000Windows MeWindows 98Windows 95 Previous discussions about this article: (open a message to see applicable responses, if any) [Windows ME] Question about 'Turn off the Flying Paper Animations' (Afkamm: Friday, October 5, 2001) [Windows XP] Question about 'Turn off the Flying Paper Animations' (PReDiToR: Tuesday, March 12, 2002) [Windows 2000] Question about 'Turn off the Flying Paper Animations' (Neo Gigs: Tuesday, April 22, 2003) [Windows 2000] A better solution. (Jimmy: Thursday, October 23, 2003) [Windows 98] I Did It! (KC: Wednesday, December 10, 2003) [Windows 98] Question about 'Turn off the Flying Paper Animations' (sj: Tuesday, February 17, 2004) [Windows XP] Question about 'Turn off the Flying Paper Animations' (Slinkie: Tuesday, April 8, 2008) Return to "Reducing Clutter"