Start menu slow to fill in

[Ray]

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?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Ray,

Try rebuilding the icon cache, instructions here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Ray]

Hi Ray,

Try rebuilding the icon cache, instructions here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-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.