re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 1:56 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Dingle (1 messages posted) It's true that the Start menu in XP is dog-slow by default. The single biggest thing you can do to speed it up is to turn off the "Show shadows under menus" effect in Display Properties | Appearance | Effects. I couldn't believe what a huge difference this made for me (it's just unconscionable that this effect is on by default given how slow it is). I think that disabling the fade/scroll transition effect helps a bit too. Maybe you've already turned off these effects, but if you haven't, do it and you'll be in for a nice surprise. Written in response to: re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Cloney: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 11:42 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Bob J: Thursday, July 1, 2004 at 5:59 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (abe: Thu, Feb 21, 2002, 10:13 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Rusty: Sat, Mar 23, 2002, 8:04 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (BL: Mon, Apr 15, 2002, 10:47 pm) Hey BL! (Nathan: Sat, Sep 7, 2002, 12:25 pm) re: Hey BL! (JPeG: Thu, Mar 20, 2003, 5:22 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Nathan: Sat, Sep 7, 2002, 12:23 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (roy: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 11:42 am) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Matt: Fri, Nov 1, 2002, 6:25 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Cloney: Wed, Nov 20, 2002, 11:42 am) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Adam Dingle: Sat, Nov 23, 2002, 1:56 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Bob J: Thu, Jul 1, 2004, 5:59 am) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Tony: Tue, May 31, 2005, 1:23 am) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (KW: Sat, May 3, 2003, 3:39 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Cloney: Sun, May 4, 2003, 11:37 am) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Justin: Sun, Dec 22, 2002, 10:24 am) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (JE: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 5:57 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Josh: Sat, Feb 22, 2003, 9:07 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (azrussell132: Fri, Apr 2, 2004, 9:30 am) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Cloney: Mon, Mar 17, 2003, 2:59 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Dave: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 12:39 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Franko: Sun, Dec 28, 2003, 2:54 am) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Rodney: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 3:17 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Cloney: Thu, Apr 8, 2004, 12:42 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (cdstealer: Wed, Apr 7, 2004, 1:50 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Erik Zentmyer: Mon, Jul 24, 2006, 6:20 pm) re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Jim Ponder: Fri, Dec 15, 2006, 11:39 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum