I have a question about Speed up the Start Menu:

it says to move the start menu bar to the left of something, i remember that, but it was in windows ME, not XP , i have windows XP, and it's as if the computer is slow when the menu opens up, but my computer is very powerful. thanks guys!!!

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Assuming you have already turned off the Effects in the Display properties, Here is the meat of it. Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Control Panel\ desktop. Click on the string named MenuShowDelay (or add it if it's not there by selecting New, String Value from the Edit menu) Specify 50 or less for its value, and close the Registry Editor when finished. You'll have to restart Windows for this change to take effect.


On Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 10:13 pm, abe wrote:
>I have a question about Speed
>up the Start Menu:

>
>it says to move the start menu bar to the left of something, i remember that, but
>it was in windows ME, not XP , i have windows XP, and it's as if the computer is
>slow when the menu opens up, but my computer is very powerful.
>
>thanks guys!!!
>
>

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An easier les techy (and better)solution You can use this tip to speed up the way menus display in Windows XP. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance, and the click System. Click the Advanced tab, and under Performance, click the Settings button. Clear the Fade or slide menus into view check box, and then click OK. Now when you bring up a collapsed menu, it will expand without delay. Or switch to Redhat


On Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 8:04 pm, Rusty wrote:
>Assuming you have already turned off the Effects in the Display properties, Here
>is the meat of it.
>Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE).
>Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Control Panel\ desktop.
>Click on the string named MenuShowDelay (or add it if it's not there by selecting
>New, String Value from the Edit menu)
>Specify 50 or less for its value, and close the Registry Editor when finished.
>You'll have to restart Windows for this change to take effect.
>
>

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How much RAM do you have? I would suggest more RAM from Crucial.com.

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I would not suggest to anyone to get into their registry. It could cause Windows to work improperlyand possibly not at all!


On Monday, April 15, 2002 at 10:47 pm, BL wrote:
>An easier les techy (and better)solution You can use this tip to speed up the way
>menus display in Windows XP.
>Click Start, click Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance, and the click
>System.
>Click the Advanced tab, and under Performance, click the Settings button.
>Clear the Fade or slide menus into view check box, and then click OK.
>Now when you bring up a collapsed menu, it will expand without delay.
>Or switch to Redhat
>

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I know what your talking about man. My comp does the same thing. When go to look in the program files for example, the menu will be blank for a second and then fill in the folders and such. It's the same with all the sub menus. I have 392 megs of ram and a 1200 mhz Duron. So I don't think it's a performance issue. This is really buggin me and any help would be appreciated. Thanks


On Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 10:13 pm, abe wrote:
>I have a question about Speed
>up the Start Menu:

>
>it says to move the start menu bar to the left of something, i remember that, but
>it was in windows ME, not XP , i have windows XP, and it's as if the computer is
>slow when the menu opens up, but my computer is very powerful.
>
>thanks guys!!!
>
>

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I don't think that he is talking about the menudelay setting. I have the same problem. I have set it to "0". I have also removed the menu sort list in HKCU.MS.WIN.CU.Explorer.MenuOrder And even that dosent work. The start menu just flat-out lags. It takes like 5-10 seconds for every submenu. I once ran across a fix for this problem a while ago, but I didn't have the problem before and now I can't find the article. BTW...I am running a P4 2.8Ghz, 1024megs of ram and XP. The whole CP is flawless except this very annoying attribute. -Cloney


On Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 10:13 pm, abe wrote:
>I have a question about Speed
>up the Start Menu:

>
>it says to move the start menu bar to the left of something, i remember that, but
>it was in windows ME, not XP , i have windows XP, and it's as if the computer is
>slow when the menu opens up, but my computer is very powerful.
>
>thanks guys!!!
>
>

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It's true that the Start menu in XP is dog-slow by default. The single biggest thing you can do to speed it up is to turn off the "Show shadows under menus" effect in Display Properties | Appearance | Effects. I couldn't believe what a huge difference this made for me (it's just unconscionable that this effect is on by default given how slow it is). I think that disabling the fade/scroll transition effect helps a bit too. Maybe you've already turned off these effects, but if you haven't, do it and you'll be in for a nice surprise.

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I had the same problem with my P3 1GHz 512MB of RAM. In windows XP it is really simple to fix. First, right click on My Computer and go to Properties. Then go to the Advanced Tab. There Should be a area with the heading performance with a settings button close to it and click it. Uncheck show shadows under start menus and anything else you don't want to have on and click ok. Get back to the desktop and enjoy your new found speed!!!!

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I've tried most of the other tips here to fix this annoying issue, but Justin came up with the winner! The My Computer/Properties fix worked easily and effectively.


On Sunday, December 22, 2002 at 10:24 am, Justin wrote:
>I had the same problem with my P3 1GHz 512MB of RAM. In windows XP it is really simple
>to fix. First, right click on My Computer and go to Properties. Then go to the Advanced
>Tab. There Should be a area with the heading performance with a settings button close
>to it and click it. Uncheck show shadows under start menus and anything else you
>don't want to have on and click ok. Get back to the desktop and enjoy your new found
>speed!!!!

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Justin's tip definitely worked for me. I enjoyed the fade effect, but not the lag time on the start menu. Thanks Justin.


On Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 5:57 pm, JE wrote:
>I've tried most of the other tips here to fix this annoying issue, but Justin came
>up with the winner! The My Computer/Properties fix worked easily and effectively.
>
>

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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.





On a final note: After you do either of these, the first time you use your start 
menu, it will be a little slow. (it has to remake the sort keys) but afterwards, 
it should be lightning fast.

Hope this helps.
-Cloney

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I think one of the key aspects of speeding up and customizing any system is to edit everything in sight - within reason. When you buy a car, you don't just get a base model... and it doesn't stop you from looking at the modded cars thinking "Man, I wish I could do that". Windows is a very customizable OS, but not as user-friendly when it comes to customizing as some others out there (Linux, MACos). As long as people know enough to make backups of anything they edit, I think registry editting is a GREAT way to fix up your system. I've modded the crap outta my winXP, and it's probably one of the smoothest running machines I've seen (not to brag of course ;) ). I love it. I've also learned a LOT about registry editting along the way too, which has helped me further modify it, and further improve it. Well..... that's my rant for the day =) haha.


On Saturday, September 7, 2002 at 12:25 pm, Nathan wrote:
>I would not suggest to anyone to get into their registry. It could cause Windows
>to work improperlyand possibly not at all!
>
>

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Hey Cloney, Have you found a fix for the slow-a$$ start menu yet? I too have the MenuShowDelay set to 0, but still no dice. Has anyone found a surefire fix for this? Thanks PS: none of the WinXP system options do anything to solve this problem (ie: removing the "fading, "shadow" etc doesn't do anything to solve the lag problem).


On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 11:42 am, Cloney wrote:
>I don't think that he is talking about the menudelay setting. I have the same problem.
>I have set it to "0". I have also removed the menu sort list in HKCU.MS.WIN.CU.Explorer.MenuOrder
>And even that dosent work.
>
>The start menu just flat-out lags. It takes like 5-10 seconds for every submenu.
>I once ran across a fix for this problem a while ago, but I didn't have the problem
>before and now I can't find the article.
>
>BTW...I am running a P4 2.8Ghz, 1024megs of ram and XP. The whole CP is flawless
>except this very annoying attribute.
>
>-Cloney
>
>
>

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Yeah, I have... See my other post in this thread.


On Saturday, May 3, 2003 at 3:39 pm, KW wrote:
>
>Hey Cloney,
>
>Have you found a fix for the slow-a$$ start menu yet? I too have the MenuShowDelay
>set to 0, but still no dice.
>
>Has anyone found a surefire fix for this?
>
>Thanks
>
>PS: none of the WinXP system options do anything to solve this problem (ie: removing
>the "fading, "shadow" etc doesn't do anything to solve the lag problem).
>

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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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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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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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thank you thank you thank you.... had forgotten how/where to change these settings in "my computer" to speed up the start menu. The lag (on a 2.6 ghz) on the start menu was driving me crazy.


On Sunday, December 22, 2002 at 10:24 am, Justin wrote:
>I had the same problem with my P3 1GHz 512MB of RAM. In windows XP it is really simple
>to fix. First, right click on My Computer and go to Properties. Then go to the Advanced
>Tab. There Should be a area with the heading performance with a settings button close
>to it and click it. Uncheck show shadows under start menus and anything else you
>don't want to have on and click ok. Get back to the desktop and enjoy your new found
>speed!!!!

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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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Damn.... this thread is sooooo oooollllddd. Anyway, sorry for not replying sooner... umm honestly Franko, the second one was designed to scare those that do not know what they are doing. Like I said, you can really mess up windows if you don't know what you are doing while inside of regedit. Needless to say, the reg file will work and is VERY safe. Justin's fix only changes the amount of delay before it displays the menu.... Mine makes it so that all the residual junk data is removed. (which seems to be the source of most of these people's problems.) Basically, if your Hard disk goes nuts while your start menu is trying to display... this is most likely your problem. I hope that this helps you. -cl0ney


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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Adam, You're the man. I've been fighting this for the past month. Turning off shadows was a tremendous improvement. Thanks


On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 1:56 pm, Adam Dingle wrote:
>It's true that the Start menu in XP is dog-slow by default. The single biggest thing
>you can do to speed it up is to turn off the "Show shadows under menus" effect in
>Display Properties | Appearance | Effects. I couldn't believe what a huge difference
>this made for me (it's just unconscionable that this effect is on by default given
>how slow it is). I think that disabling the fade/scroll transition effect helps
>a bit too. Maybe you've already turned off these effects, but if you haven't, do
>it and you'll be in for a nice surprise.

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Has it escaped anyone's notice that you are discussing something that was forced upon us? Did we ASK to have slide-out menus? I just fired up Word and the 'Open' option under 'File' was hidden. How brain-numbingly stupid is that?! I couldn't open my work!!! Why should we spend our time trying to fix this? We should be discussing how to turn the slides ON not OFF!!! So take note Microsoft. Stop forcing stuff on us that makes life harder and causes us to spend time trying to turn it off. Hiding menus is counter-intuitive, and whoever hid my 'Open' link in Word deserves to get fired...


On Thursday, July 1, 2004 at 5:59 am, Bob J wrote:
>Adam,
>
>You're the man. I've been fighting this for the past month. Turning off shadows
>was a tremendous improvement.
>Thanks
>
>
>

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Here's how I'd hosed myself: I'd put a shortcut to an application that lived on a network location on my start menu. When I was offline, it would take -forever- for XP to figure out that the network wasn't available. When I deleted that shortcut, voila! I'll probably make a group for network apps and put all the network stuff in that group.


On Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 10:13 pm, abe wrote:
>I have a question about Speed
>up the Start Menu:

>
>it says to move the start menu bar to the left of something, i remember that, but
>it was in windows ME, not XP , i have windows XP, and it's as if the computer is
>slow when the menu opens up, but my computer is very powerful.
>
>thanks guys!!!
>
>

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Cloney was real close to solving the problem. All of the above changes work... You need to do one more little thing Cloney, compare the list of keys in the registry listing to the one that is actually being opened when you click on start/programs. You will notice 1 or more that don't exist anymore. Windows is trying to find them in the background while you are waiting. Thanks for getting me started though. I was trying everything (turned off all checks in the performance settings menu, switched to classic mode XP) once I got into the registry to check everything out, I noticed the menu wasn't the same. Once I deleted all of the old keys, it sped it up big time. Thanks again... good luck to all.. -Jim P. IT System Administrator

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more memory, yes...definitely, but also check for bloatware. Any programs you are not or never will use, get rid of them. We had this same complaint with Jazzercise....Its was a Cicero Computer, chuck full of bloatware....plus defrag, added some memory, they were exstatic! The little sucker flew.


On Saturday, September 7, 2002 at 12:23 pm, Nathan wrote:
>How much RAM do you have? I would suggest more RAM from Crucial.com.

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