I'm not running Vista, however I did find a way to get the animations working. I had to create per-pixel borders for it in order to get them to do what they are suppose to do.

I know and I couldn't get the animations to work so I used the existing bmp's and created per-pixel borders to get them to work. I was asking how to get them to work earlier with no answer so, I found my own.

I have no idea what else I did. I know the start panel user pane animation didn't work until I changed the setting in skinstudio from blur to the normal per-pixel setting.

I tried a little test. I removed the caption border and maximized border in the per-pixel section to see if it would still animate but nothing. When I re-added the caption per-pixel border it animated again. So you tell me what it is. All I know is if I remove it, it stops working, put it back and it's fine??