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re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu'
Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 3:17 pm
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Posted by Rodney (1 messages posted)


Franko: Worry not. It works. Follow the instructions for making the .reg file. Justin's fix is completely separate; the two fixes work together, but Cloney's was the one that did the most for me. Rodney


On Sunday, December 28, 2003 at 2:54 am, Franko wrote:
>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.
>
>
>




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re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (Franko: Sunday, December 28, 2003 at 2:54 am)

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-re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu' (KW: Sat, May 3, 2003, 3:39 pm)
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*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)
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