re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu'
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 12:39 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave
(1 messages posted)
Hello Clooney,
I just want to say a huge THANK YOU!!
Your tip worked perfectly and saved me from having to re-install my PC.. I was begining
to loose all hope of ever finding a solution to the problem.
Thanks Again, Dave
On Monday, March 17, 2003 at 2:59 pm, Cloney wrote:
>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.
>
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