The default speed of the Start Menu is pretty slow, but you can fix that by editing a Registry Key. Fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop MenuShowDelay

By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to speed it up.

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i thought it was fast at 400!!! ill go change it.. bloody hell it must pop up like lightening!

i set it to 0... no difference! i set it to 100000000 .... no difference!! wtf?!?

FWIW:

I do see a difference, but not without rebooting

Thanks for the tweak info, xper

It sped things up alot!

I'm not at my XP machine but I think TweakUI also changes the menu speed

Tweak UI and Tweak XP will do it for you among so much other crap.

Rick

cheers for the info man

Im running the corp. version and I havent been able to locate this string in the reg. I found it under the last few builds but not under corp. version.....Anyone have any suggestion?

-Chris

cjhenry: use x-setup, from http://www.xteq.com/

there is an option in that program to change the speed.

hope this helps

In the last dozans or so build of xp, Ive tried x-setup...and tweak xp. Its great and all but at some point it always made my system very unstable. Im a man who loves to tweak the registry by hand. Ive never been impressed with the above 2 applications.....Oh by the way I found the entry and I changed it from 400 (default) to 0

-Chris:gmpg

The REG-trick MenuShowDelay will only speed up in the Menu's unfolding faster.

Elsewhere suggestions are made to stop (on a StartUp) the Running of all kind of the (useless) NT Services of which many always Run(semi-) automatically on a (re-) boot.

Another suggestion made was to always logon as Administrator, since that with any Users again all kinds of Services will start.

-So why does the StartMenu always shows such a 1-minute delay in its "on screen present"-performance, whilst the Desktop+Taskbar are already "minutes" visable on screen? (happend also in the 2505 build).

-And now how to prefend this default StartMenuShowsBootDelay behaviour? (And now without the workaround of having 3td party sw to deal with it).

-Anyone does know of straight Windows solutions?

straight windows solution:

-Do not install older XP versions.

-Instead install Corp edition (WXPCORP_EN).

if you want some speed go to control panelfolder options click the "view" tab and uncheck the box that says "automatically search for network folders and printers"

Tweak ui will do it all for you! customizer xp is about the same but tueak ui is free. So the winner is