All Programs listing is slow to load

[Guest]

I am running Windows XP Professional on my laptop. I have an intermitant
problem with the All Programs list. Once or twice a day when I go to the
Start Button and mouse over the All Programs Button it takes up to 30 seconds
for the list to populate. Most of the time the list populates instantly.
The issue does not seem to occur based on what is running at the time of the
problem.

Thanks
Dave

 

[Rich Barry]

How much Ram do you have installed in your Laptop? Anything under
512MB usually results in some sluggishness.

 

[Guest]

Rich:
I am running 1.99 GB of RAM so that is not the problem.
Dave

 

[Rich Barry]

Thirty seconds would be enough time to rt click on Taskbar>select
Properties>Processes. See if any are taking or using
a high percentage of your cpu cycles. Also, you could look at the Event
Viewer found in Control Panel>AdminTools.

 

[N.Papageorgio]

Check the following link for XP icon loading.

http://www.ourtweaks.com/tweakxp/slow-loading-icons-xp/

 

[Guest]

Rich:
I tried this and the CPU was only 4% in use. I think the problem is
something funkier that RAM or CPU.
Dave