Start Menu: submenus are slow

[Lester Horwinkle]

In XP Home SP1, I use the classic style throughout.

I organize my program menus differently than most people ... I have a series
of subfolders in my Start Menu folder, with application shortcuts in each
subfolder. There's a Video subfolder, Tools subfolder, Web subfolder, etc,
each with app shortcuts pertinent to that category.

The problem: Start Menu pops up immediately, but when I mouse up to one of
these tools folders, it takes a couple of seconds for the submenu to open
up.

Is there a fix for this?

I had the same menu structure under Windows 98 on another computer, and
there was no submenu delay.

Also, interestingly, I have the same structure on my wife's computer, also
running XP Home (but no SP1 ... this is a 2 year old box). And it exhibits
no submenu delay.

[Maureen Goldman]

>"Lester Horwinkle" > wrote:

>In XP Home SP1, I use the classic style throughout.
>
>I organize my program menus differently than most people ... I have a series
>of subfolders in my Start Menu folder, with application shortcuts in each
>subfolder. There's a Video subfolder, Tools subfolder, Web subfolder, etc,
>each with app shortcuts pertinent to that category.
>
>The problem: Start Menu pops up immediately, but when I mouse up to one of
>these tools folders, it takes a couple of seconds for the submenu to open
>up.
>
>Is there a fix for this?
>
>I had the same menu structure under Windows 98 on another computer, and
>there was no submenu delay.
>
>Also, interestingly, I have the same structure on my wife's computer, also
>running XP Home (but no SP1 ... this is a 2 year old box). And it exhibits
>no submenu delay.

InTweakUI, you can adjust the menu speed under the Mouse setting...
"sets the speed at which cascading menus automatically open when you
move the mouse over them".

(I keep copies of some of my shortcut folders on my quicklaunch bar.)

[Allison Honchul]

I'm having this problem as well, but I was a little
confused by your reply. Where is it that you can change
this option?

[Maureen Goldman]

>"Allison Honchul" > wrote:
>I'm having this problem as well, but I was a little
>confused by your reply. Where is it that you can change
>this option?

You need to quote whatever you're replying to. I believe I responded
to this one. Control Panel \ TweakUI\ mouse tab has the setting to
adjust menu speed. You may need to download TweakUI for XP.

[Lester Horwinkle]

Thanks. This doesn't apply. I don't see a need for such delay, so I always
set it to no-delay.

However, I should add that the delay that I see **only** applies to the
Start Menu. And it goes away after the first time you touch a submenu.

It's as if Windows is trying to cache the menu folder's contents (and icons)
the first time. After that, there's no delay (until I logoff/on or
shutdown/startup), at which time the delays reappear.

"Allison Honchul" > wrote in message
...
> I'm having this problem as well, but I was a little
> confused by your reply. Where is it that you can change
> this option?