Start menu slow to fill in

Sometimes when I open a submenu of the start menu (e.g. Programs) the
empty menu frame pops up almost instantly, but then there's a delay
before the icons appear. At times it's as much as a second or two. It
seems to be worse with the larger submenus.

Once I've opened a given submenu, the next time I open it, it fills in
immediately. But after a while the delay comes back.

I had a similar problem on another system under XP, and never found a
solution. Is there a solution in Vista?

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Ray
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Hi Ray,

Try rebuilding the icon cache, instructions here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...e-rebuild.html

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Ray" <vortren-newsx@yaxhoo.com> wrote in message
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> Sometimes when I open a submenu of the start menu (e.g. Programs) the
> empty menu frame pops up almost instantly, but then there's a delay
> before the icons appear. At times it's as much as a second or two. It
> seems to be worse with the larger submenus.
>
> Once I've opened a given submenu, the next time I open it, it fills in
> immediately. But after a while the delay comes back.
>
> I had a similar problem on another system under XP, and never found a
> solution. Is there a solution in Vista?
>
> --
> Ray
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"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote:

> Hi Ray,
>
> Try rebuilding the icon cache, instructions here:
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...e-rebuild.html

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately that didn't do the trick.

But the article you cited reminded me of something I read when I had
this problem on an old XP system. There was a registry entry that set
the size of the icon cache. Though it didn't help before, I figured it
would be worth a try. The registry entry is:
hkey_current_user/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/explorer/
IconCacheSize, and I set it to 4000. The entry didn't exist, so I
created it as a DWORD, not being sure what type it should be.

So far it seems to have done the trick, but I won't be sure for a few
days.
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Ray
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