Disable Flip 3D

October 11, 2008

Flip 3d has been created by Microsoft mostly because of their desire to step up Vista’s graphical interface . For most of us tech-wise people it’s pretty useless, but i must agree Flip 3d is pretty neat when you have to present something in a conference and you use Flip 3d substituting the old alt-tab.

Disable Flip 3D
Windows Vista Flip 3D in action

Disable Flip 3D

1. Extract the zip file to your computer and then double-click on  Disable-Flip3D.reg to enter the information into the registry.

2. Open command prompt in Administrator mode by right clicking on the Command Prompt and selecting Run as Administrator .

Disable Flip 3D
Run Command Prompt as administrator

3. Once your command prompt screen appears type the following commands to restart the desktop window manager service.

net stop uxsms

net start uxsms

Disable Flip 3D
Desktop Window Manager Service Restart results in Command Prompt

Re-Enable Flip 3D

So you thought to give Flip 3D one more spin ? Here’s how you can enable it :

1. Extract the zip file to your computer and then double-click on  Enable-Flip3D.reg to enter the information into the registry.

2. Follow steps 2 and 3 from Disable Flip 3D to restart the desktop window manager service.

That should be all ! Enjoy !

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