re: Question about 'Speed up the Start Menu'
Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at 1:50 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by cdstealer
(1 messages posted)
I know the fix below is over a year old, but I have only just been experiancing this
issue over the past couple of weeks.
Everytime I installed an app or wanted to simply move a shortcut it would take forever
and the HDD would thrash around for
about 10 secs or so before allowing the start menu and/or submenu appear.
I went through the second part as I like to do things manually. Rebooted the system
and tested it.. works like a charm :)
The amount of rubbish that was lingering in there for appz that were not even on
my system anymore was unreal.
I deleted everything apart from the 7 main catagories that I use. Thanx again...!!
:D
PS. My core system specs are an XP2700+, 1Gb PC2700 corsair, 80+160Gb Maxtor ATA133,
MSI K7N2G-ILSR.
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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