Faster Windows XP Menus
October 5th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under
Sometimes making your PC ‘run’ faster is just about changing the way programs run e.g disabling splash screens. This tip will make your machine feel faster, by increasing the speed with which menus load, by removing the delay between clicking on a menu and that menu being displayed, which is enforced by XP.
To enable this tweak do the following:
- Go to the Start Menu and then click on ‘Run’
- Type in ‘Regedit’ then click on ‘Ok’
- Navigate to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\’
- Once you’ve found this registry key, select ‘MenuShowDelay’
- Right click on ‘MenuShowDelay’ and select ‘Modify’
- Lower the speed to somewhere between 100 and 400
- Close the registry editor
This is the delay time before a menu is opened measured in ms. You can set it to “0″ but it can make windows really hard to use as menus will open automatically when a mouse is just hovered over them. I personally go 100ms but experiment until you find a timing you like.
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