re: start menu slow Saturday, May 22, 2004 at 9:20 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Nel MS (1 messages posted) http://www.winguides.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=genwinxp&Number=108281&page=20&view=collapsed&sb=5&part= (derived from the link above) The problem is, if you simply deleted programs from the C:\program files folder (while leaving that "deleted program's" shortcut hanging there on the START > All Programs menu) , then chances are you have an extremely slow start with "broken shortcuts" searching for their respective programs. ============== On Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 11:49 pm, Roland Wong wrote: >On my HP XP system, after pressing the mouse button on programs on the start button, >the programs submenu takes about ten seconds to show. Changed the registry menu >speed to zero to no effect. Any thoughts. 1gigahertz celeron with 512 meg memory. Written in response to: start menu slow (Roland Wong: Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 11:49 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] start menu slow (Roland Wong: Thu, Nov 22, 2001, 11:49 pm) re: start menu slow (Nel MS: Sat, May 22, 2004, 9:20 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum