Icon Refresh Rate

[Mark Haupt]

I've got 3 winxp home PCs all with current SP1 updates: 2
laptops and 1 desktop. All PCs have at least 384MB
memory. One laptop has a 600mhz Celeron processor. The
other laptop has a 2.4ghz Pentium processor. The desktop
has a 2.2ghz Pentium processor. And no, I am not
experiencing an real performance problems on any of the
PCs. All PCs are functioning quite well.

I have more of an annoyance in that I've noticed when
using the new gui style start menu as opposed to the
classic style, icons in subsequent menus, eg. Control
Panel, refresh slowly. So much so, you can watch the
default winxp icons in ctrl panel and some menus get
replaced by the gui icon one-by-one.

Setting the start menu to classic style resolves the
problem. All gui icons are immediately and quickly
displayed.

I have the same problem on all 3 winxp home PCs.

I've increased the icon cache to 1000 and still have the
same symptoms on all 3. I've also reduced the color depth
of the icons and still no luck.

I like the look and feel of the new gui style start menu
but do not like the slow icon refresh rates.

Does anyone have any insight or a possible solution?