First, since your driver is out of date, go to www.nvidia.com and download the latest drivers for windows xp. Shut down all applications and run the .exe updater. Restart even if it doesn't tell you to. Try your program again.

Unfortunately, the specific flags I was thinking of do not appear to be supported under VC6. It is supported under VC7.Net. I was going to suggest that uiAction should be either SPI_GETMENUFADE to retrieve the state or SPI_SETMENUFADE to set the state. And there is also SPI_GETSELECTIONFADE and SPI_SETSELECTIONFADE which affect the fading of the chosen menu item after the rest of the menu disappears.

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Found it!!! There is also the master switch which is equivalent to turning on/off the feature completely as SPI_GETMENUANIMATION and SPI_SETMENUANIMATION. It is supported under VC6.
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