re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu'
Sunday, December 28, 2003 at 2:54 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Franko
(1 messages posted)
Dear Cloney,
What is your opinion of Justin's fix versus yours. I'll admit your fix confuses
me a bit. I don't quite understand the first one about creating a text file and
then double clicking it to make it part of the registry.
And the second fix just plain makes me nervous.
I my opinion I think I must have accidentally erased a file that manages the taskbar
and start menu. Because a while back I was annoyed that my computer kept redialing
while I was on the phone. I spotted the process (exe) that was dialing using taskmanager
and then erased the supposed offending process (first making a backup of course).
Whatever I erased didn't control the dialing since it kept happening but about
a month later (and ever since) my taskbar and startmenu does not respond instantaneously
(like it always has since I first bought the computer - over 1 1/2 years ago). All
of a sudden I cannot get the taskbar and startmenu to respond. It is driving me
insane. I just want to take a sledgehammer to the thing.
Anyway, I tried Justin's fix (change MyComputer's Advanced Properties (dropshadow,
etc) and for a while (about 3 minutes or so) it works then it simply goes back to
taking forever (20-30 seconds) to respond.
Someone please help. Thanks in advance.
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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