How to disable slow motion effect in Mac OS X (shift key)?

Question

Mac OS X has a fantastic feature that enables you to play window effects in slow motion by holding down the Shift key while playing the animation (like minimize, maximize, Exposé, etc...)

As a matter of fact, I don't like it! :)

How can I disable it?

Cool - didn't know about that. And +1 for asking in a positive way. — Andrew Grimm, Feb 10 '11 at 11:44
Looks like you should have just waited 8 years where it’s now disabled and people want it back on! (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/303106/how-to-enable-slow-genie-effect-in-macos-10-13-high-sierra) — user535673, Oct 30 '18 at 20:14

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 04 '10 at 16:40

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Open up Terminal.app

Type:

defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool false

If you want to go back, use:

defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool true

You'll need to restart the Finder after running the command.

edited Jul 04 '10 at 16:40

Chealion

answered Mar 18 '10 at 17:41

Loïc Wolff

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Sorry... it did not work. Maybe it doesn't works on Snow Leopard. – Daniel Silveira Mar 20 '10 at 17:47
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Agreed, it did not work for me when i tried to disable the slow animation for expose on snow leopard – emmby Apr 26 '10 at 15:16
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Eh.. didn't work for me either, Lion 10.7.4 – Pavel Alexeev Jun 04 '12 at 09:48
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no workie, mountain lion – Peter Ehrlich Nov 16 '13 at 02:56
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no workie, yosemite – mcmlxxxiii Jan 28 '15 at 02:07

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

At least for me, in Yosemite 10.10.3, the following answer from our friends at Ask Different worked: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/115698

You can disable the hotkeys for slow motion effects by following these instructions:

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