I use remote desktop from home to log into my work e-mail. Whenever I open the mail.office365.com webpage, the image to the left (picture of a city, pictures of people, the words "connect" and "verbinden") takes about an entire minute to load. There are 4 shades that it loads, the first one is opaque red, then it becomes more and more translucent with the red coloring, until it is clear. Each of the 4 color gradients has to load the entire image 1cm per second at a time, resulting in it taking me a LONG time to log into my e-mail.

How can I disable this? I've disabled the following under Visual Effects, with no results.

Animate controls and elements inside windows (only in Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1)
Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
Animations in the taskbar and Start Menu (Windows 7) or Animations in the taskbar (Windows 8 and 8.1)
Fade or slide menus into view
Fade or slide ToolTips into view
Fade out menu items after clicking
Save taskbar thumbnail previews (Windows 7, 8 and 8.1)
Show window contents while dragging
Slide open combo boxes
Slide taskbar buttons (only in Windows XP and Vista)
Smooth-scroll list boxes

I've also tried using the Google Chrome extension Turn Off the Lights and in the Visual Effects tab, disabled the last two checkboxes "Fade In" and "Fade Out"

Is there any way to stop this fading animation from occuring? Or is there an HTML only version of mail.office365.com that I can use?

What is the point of this fading animation anyway?! It serves no purpose!

• Edited by Krel420 13 hours 31 minutes ago

Hi,

Since this issue is related to Office 365 website, I recommend you post the question to Office 365 forum:

https://community.office365.com/en-us/f/

PS: This forum is primarily talking about the Office client issue.

Thanks for your understanding.

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support