MinAnimate continuously rechecking itself

[Guest Larc]

I'm having a big problem in a system running XP Home SP3.

 

In System Properties > Advanced > Performance Setting button, the first item is

"Animate windows when minimizing or maximizing." I keep having to uncheck this

box since it continuously rechecks itself. Oddly, when it has rechecked itself,

what is supposedly the controlling setting in the Registry is still on "0" or

false (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics > MinAnimate). How

can this function turn itself on when the Registry setting still shows it turned

off? I thought the Registry was the ultimate controller.

 

I'm not aware of any other program that could be causing this. It's been going

on for some time now, well before SP3.

 

Thanks for any ideas on how to fix it.

 

Larc