How do you disable the zoom effect / window animations in the new OS X Lion?

macos window-manager

Open Terminal.app In your /Applications/Utilies folder and run the following command:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

and press Enter

Note: Changes might only take place after restarting your mac

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