re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu'
Monday, March 17, 2003 at 2:59 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Cloney
(4 messages posted)
Actually, I found the answer to my problem. But it requires that you loose any sort
order that you have on your start menu. (in other words, it will be alphabetized
when your finished with fixing it)
Also, I still have to fix it once in a while to speed it up again. Any way Explorer
is saving the menu sort order for all icons in your start menu. When you move (or
remove) icons, it leaves the sort information (junk) in the registry. This slows
down explorer because it reads through all the junk entries to find the useful ones,
and sorts those in the order specified.
---PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TO EDIT IT---
(Sorry about that, Just tryng to make sure no one gets hurt :) )
Ok, The way to solve this is to do one of two things. One, is to copy the following
text into a text file, then save it as "Sort Start Menu.reg". Afterward, double click
the file to merge the contents into registry, and it will fix the problem.
-------START CLIP - DON'T COPY THIS LINE-------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Favorites]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start
Menu]
-------END CLIP - DON'T COPY THIS LINE-------
IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE REGEDIT.EXE PROPERLY THEN DONT USE THIS NEXT METHOD.
YOU CAN REALLY HURT YOUR OS.
The second way requires a little more experience, and can be pretty dangerous if
you don't know what your doing. Launch Regedit by clicking
Start Menu > Run > Type "regedit.exe"
Once you are inside regedit navigate (with the tree menu on the right) to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer >
MenuOrder > Start Menu
Here, You'll see a bunch of "keys" on the right. Each one corresponds to a link in
your start menu and each one tells explorer in which order to display your start
menu links. Each time you delete the "Order" key, you remove the sort order of the
corresponding menu.
On a final note: After you do either of these, the first time you use your start
menu, it will be a little slow. (it has to remake the sort keys) but afterwards,
it should be lightning fast.
Hope this helps.
-Cloney
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