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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Maintenance - Make Menus Load Faster XP

This is one of my favourite tweaks as it makes a huge difference to how fast your machine will 'feel'. What this tweak does is remove the slight delay between clicking on a menu and XP displaying the menu.

Go to Start then Run

1. Type 'Regedit' then click 'Ok'
2. Find "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\"
3. Select "MenuShowDelay"
4. Right click and select "Modify'
5. Reduce the number to around "100"

This is the delay time before a menu is opened. You can set it to "0" but it can make windows really hard to use as menus will open if you just look at them - well move your mouse over them anyway. I tend to go for anywhere between 50-150 depending on your desire speed.

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