Enable The Secret Start Screen Animation for every launch

Question

When i first sign onto Windows 8, i get a very cool flow-y animation of all tiles filling up the screen. After that, though, the Start screen has a much more toned-down animation. Is it possible to enable the cooler animation for every launch of the Start screen?

Answer 1

You can use Windows 8 Start Screen Tweaker to customize the animation and to enable it for every time it pops up.

Caveat:

we consider the animations feature as "unstable". Use it at your own risk for 
non-logon purposes

Alternatively you can also do some registry tinkering, to achieve this without a third party SW, but this is more involved. The steps are detailed here. The steps are

• Press Win+R on the keyboard and type “regedit.exe” without quotes.
• Navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Grid
• Create a new DWORD value called Launcher_SessionLoginAnimation_OnShow. Set it to 1.
• Enjoy

Answer 2

There is a registry tweak available that apparently does this. Instructions are from here.

1. Open the Registry Editor by pressing "WIN+R" and type regedit.
2. Go to following key:

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Grid

3. Create a new DWORD Launcher_SessionLoginAnimation_OnShow and set its value to 1