On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:58:44 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

On 9/17/2015 3:36 PM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2015-09-17 15:28, Char Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:50:02 -0400, Wolf K wrote:


Otherwise, I've never seen the menu collapse on its own and haven't heard
anyone else mention it. Are you seeing different behavior?

Since I made it a habit to click on each menu/submenu item, there have
been nor more collapses. But it could also a bug fix (Win 8.1.)

Collapsing menus has been my biggest complaint against Windows Starting
with Windows ME ( Before that I was running IBM OS/2 on all of my
computers.) I am currently running Windows 8.1 after trying to use
Windows 10.

The problem has not disappeared over the years and revisions. I spent
about 3 minutes today trying to drag an item to a submenu. You drag to
the first level, then the second, and when you try the third the whole
thing collapses and you start over.

The only way that I could see a person not realizing this, is if they
have become so use to this behavior, they do not realize the problem.

Maybe we should take a poll.

I've *never* seen the cascading menu collapse all on its own, going all the
way back to Win 95 or at least going back as far as I can remember. The only
way I can duplicate what you're reporting is to move the mouse pointer off
of that branch.

I think I suggested this before, but I'm guessing that you're
unintentionally moving the mouse pointer up or down so that it touches an
adjacent menu branch. You may not realize that you're doing it. In other
words, user error and not a design flaw.

By the way, did you know that you can increase the delay (via Registry edit)
so that you can temporarily move off of the current branch without causing a
collapse? That might be a tweak that would help you.