How do I disable the cube effect when switching between accounts?

Hello, I have a friend who wants to turn off the animated cube effect that happens when they switch between theirs and their wife's accounts. After a lot of googling I am not having much luck finding out how to do it. Does anyone here know?
Interestingly, you can see what a difference it makes by loading "Quartz Debug" and unchecking "Enable Quartz Extreme" - makes fast user switching really fast! But I don't want to permanently disable Quartz Extreme, I just want to turn off this one animation.

You can't disable the animation, as it is a part of the system/account controller as far as I know.

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