xper Posted August 21, 2001 Share Posted August 21, 2001 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. :eek: :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FthrJACK Posted August 26, 2001 Share Posted August 26, 2001 i thought it was fast at 400!!! ill go change it.. bloody hell it must pop up like lightening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FthrJACK Posted August 26, 2001 Share Posted August 26, 2001 i set it to 0... no difference! i set it to 100000000 .... no difference!! wtf?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDolph Posted August 28, 2001 Share Posted August 28, 2001 FWIW:I do see a difference, but not without rebooting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puterwiz Posted August 29, 2001 Share Posted August 29, 2001 Thanks for the tweak info, xperIt sped things up alot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[marcel] Posted August 31, 2001 Share Posted August 31, 2001 I'm not at my XP machine but I think TweakUI also changes the menu speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted August 31, 2001 Share Posted August 31, 2001 Tweak UI and Tweak XP will do it for you among so much other crap.Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhcp001 Posted September 3, 2001 Share Posted September 3, 2001 cheers for the info man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted September 3, 2001 Share Posted September 3, 2001 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameso Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 cjhenry: use x-setup, from http://www.xteq.com/there is an option in that program to change the speed.hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMS Posted September 21, 2001 Share Posted September 21, 2001 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMS Posted October 3, 2001 Share Posted October 3, 2001 straight windows solution:-Do not install older XP versions.-Instead install Corp edition (WXPCORP_EN). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apathy Posted October 10, 2001 Share Posted October 10, 2001 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTrIgue Posted October 15, 2001 Share Posted October 15, 2001 Tweak ui will do it all for you! customizer xp is about the same but tueak ui is free. So the winner is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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