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Is your Start Menu slow?

If you are a Windows user, I’m sure you must have faced this problem. The Windows as it gets older, the magic of Start Menu going away and it becomes a slow dumb. It takes 30 seconds to even 60 seconds to load and also sometimes causes Windows to crash. But by a simple tweak, we can fasten and boost the Start Menu loading.

Just follow these steps and you will get it!

  • Click on your Start Menu
  • Select the RUN option
  • Type REGEDIT in the Run and click RUN button or press enter.
  • Wait for the Registry Editor windows to appear.
  • Follow the screencast!

After you have done! You can close the Registry Editor and Bingo! Its done! Check the speed of your Start Menu now! It has been boosted!! :)

Comments 15

  1. Shankar Ganesh wrote:

    That was a great tip! It worked, thanks :)

    Posted 26 Apr 2007 at 8:44 am
  2. The3Ts wrote:

    Of course, that was a nice tip. However, one have to just take care that they are careful while tweaking with the Windows Registry.

    Posted 26 Apr 2007 at 2:32 pm
  3. Myo Kyaw Htun wrote:

    Rishi,

    This is your new blog ? huh… too many blogs how do you handle ?

    Posted 30 Apr 2007 at 9:08 pm
  4. Rishi wrote:

    @Myo,
    Hi Myo, thanks for your visit. This is not my new blog but I’ve joined here as a guest author! :D

    Posted 04 May 2007 at 5:15 am
  5. abhishek bhatnagar wrote:

    Well tip was good…but there is no author as i cant see any post.there is only one post just by rishi.

    Posted 17 May 2007 at 6:57 am
  6. Ryan Northrup wrote:

    Could someone provide a summary of the screencast (or explain how to use something enclosed in [youtube] … [/youtube]? I don’t think Internet Explorer recognizes YouTube as a tag…

    Posted 27 Sep 2008 at 1:27 am
  7. The3Ts wrote:

    @Ryan Northrup

    The YouTube Video is updated to play properly.

    Posted 27 Sep 2008 at 4:38 am
  8. Ryan Northrup wrote:

    Thanks, man.

    Posted 29 Sep 2008 at 4:37 am
  9. alabaster stone wrote:

    Wow, thanks for the tip! My start menu was loading normally until I tried to attach a USB 2.0 device in a USB 1.0 slot. I don’t know why it would change it to a really slow value but the tip worked great!

    Posted 15 Nov 2008 at 8:38 pm
  10. Andreas O wrote:

    Thanx! Works fine!!

    Posted 27 Jan 2009 at 10:17 pm
  11. Andy wrote:

    - I can’t see what’s being – due to video’s low qualiti… – Record a new video…

    Posted 22 Apr 2009 at 12:18 pm
  12. Andy wrote:

    - Oh is that ’Menu Show Delay’ ?
    - I’ve done all that and it’s still slow…

    Posted 22 Apr 2009 at 12:26 pm
  13. Narsing wrote:

    Wow, its working thanks man.

    Posted 30 Nov 2009 at 11:05 am
  14. Steve wrote:

    There’s really no reason for a video to be used to explain how to do this. It’s a waste of bandwidth.

    Change the value of the registry key “MenuShowDelay” under “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop” to something other than its default value of 400. I have mine set to 5 and it works well.

    Now you have the same information, expressed in about 400 bytes as opposed to the video which takes over a megabyte.

    Posted 01 Jun 2010 at 5:30 am
  15. Harshit wrote:

    Please do not suggest changing registeries. This does not do anything… Instead follow these 5 steps and you are done…

    1. Right click on the Windows Desktop and choose Properties
    2. Go to “Appearance” tab
    3. Click “Effects” button
    4. Uncheck “Use the following transition effect for menus and tooltips:” and Uncheck “Show shadows under menus”
    5. Click OK and then OK again

    This shall fix your problem :)

    Posted 17 Aug 2010 at 9:08 pm

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