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Stop Menus from Following the Mouse
Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Posted by dadederakh (1 messages posted)

Is there a way to prevent menus from opening until clicked? I remember using a fix like that in Windows ME or 98, but it applied only to the start menu. I very specifically want to prevent the Explorer context menu's "Send to..." submenu from being loaded into memory, if possible. This frequently causes all programs and the operating system to hang on my laptop. This might aslo provide a nearly invisible performance boost.

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re: Stop Menus from Following the Mouse
Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 5:33 am
Posted by iman (18 messages posted)

go to "Control Panel" and select "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties"... select the 
"Start Menu" tab
from the new tab,select "Advanced Tab"
in the "Start menu settings" make sure that the first checkbox (Open submenus when 
I pause on them with my mouse) is unchecked

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re: Stop Menus from Following the Mouse
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 2:03 am
Posted by dadederakh (1 messages posted)

First, I know this message is old, but the issue and operating system are still current. This works for the Start Menu and only for the first level of submenus only (ie, after clicking "All Programs" mouse tracking is enabled again). I'm looking for a way to disable the tracking for all menus at all levels everywhere. I want to have to click every option. I'd like to do this without losing the ability to read tooltips (ie not completely disable hot-tracking). Can it be done? Again, the main reason behind this request is to avoid loading the "Send To" menu. For some reason that submenu has always taken a great deal of time to load and somehow slows down the entire computer (ever since windows 95). At the same time, I do occasionally need that submenu so removing it from the context menu is not an option.


On Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 5:33 am, iman wrote:
>go to "Control Panel" and select "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties"... select the
>"Start Menu" tab
>from the new tab,select "Advanced Tab"
>in the "Start menu settings" make sure that the first checkbox (Open submenus when
>I pause on them with my mouse) is unchecked

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