Start menu delay.

[datamage]

Hey guys,.. this little problem has been driving me nuts, and I can't seem to track down the cause.

For some reason.. There are times that when I click on the start button, it takes 2-3 seconds for the menu to show up. It highlights as if I clicked it, but it just sits there for a few seconds.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any help would be appreciated.

[OuTmAn]

It's likely because some other software is using all (or nearly all) your CPU power,

if it can helps you, I had had exactly the same problem recently, on a fresh Windows reinstall on a customer's computer, and I found the trick: Windows was downloading/installing updates (the famous "automatic updates"), and it considerably slowed down the system, particularly Explorer.

So I disabled those automatic updates, it instantantly solved the problem, then I did manually the updates.

Look at your systray (bottom right of the screen, near the small clock), do you have a "Windows Update is running" icon ?