Slow All Programs in Start Menu

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Thomas Olsson

Hi,

I have a really strange problem...then I hover the "All Programs" option
in WinXP's start menu my CPU goes 100% for about 10 seconds and then the
programs menu appears. This happens randomly. I don't have a huge
startmenu, only a few programs installed. I've tried several thing to
try to get rid of this annoying problem.

- Reset the sort order for the menu
- Pumping up the Icon Cache to 2MB
- Made sure there are no dead shortcuts
- No strange files in my start menu
- "Slimmed" it down to be small
- Even set the setting to control the SystemExecutive not getting paged
out (this can't) be the problem.
- Diabled my AntiVirus (Symantec)

Of course I have all the service packs and hotfixes.

Does anyone have any suggestion? This random "delay" drives me nuts.

Thanx
Thomas Olsson
MCSD
 
Hello Thomas,

Does it occur in Safe Mode, if not try the following -

310353 How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353

Best regards,
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Shain Wray
Microsoft PSS Security Team

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