Start Menu's All Programs Slow opening

[Dennis C. Drumm]

I just discovered the answer to a very irritating behavior of vista.
Following a clean install of vista, I installed a bunch of programs (many, I
am a developer) and after a while, the folders in the All Programs folder on
the Start menu started opening painfully SLOW. After a bunch of trouble
shooting, I discovered that it was the Start Menu's Custom setting for
highlighting newly installed programs that was causing the problem. When I
cleared that check box, the folders would then open normally.

Just thought someone might want to know,

Dennis

 

[Dale]

Great tip. Thanks. We all seem to have forgotten that the whole purpose of
these forums is to solve problems in Vista.

Dale

 

[Red nosed reindeer]

Please upgrade to XP that will give you better performance and stability.
Vista is trash

 

[nicholas hall]

If you say vista is trash then it implies you do not use it anymore?

If that is the case then why don't toddle off to the XP newsgroup?

NIK

 

[Red nosed reindeer]

I do not "say" vista is trash. Vista IS trash. Only stupid people like it
If you like it, you are also stupid. I am here to explain what vista is
and to warn everyone to stay away from it. I am here for a reason.
I want to help people not be victims of a badly designed OS.

XP is the best OS microsoft has made. My advice is to keep using it.

 

[Abunazi]

I do not "say" vista is trash. Vista IS trash. Only stupid people like it
If you like it, you are also stupid. I am here to explain what vista is
and to warn everyone to stay away from it. I am here for a reason.
I want to help people not be victims of a badly designed OS.

XP is the best OS microsoft has made. My advice is to keep using it.

Seeya next Christmas

 

[nicholas hall]

When XP first came out what was it like?

Did it not take two service packs and untold updates to get it where it is
now?

Once Vista has gone through some service packs and updates could it not
equal or better XP ???

NIK

 

[Red nosed reindeer]

XP was a masterpiece right from the start.. of course it had some bugs.. but
hey bugs can be corrected. Its concept was to make a happy and very user
friendly interface (windows Me tried that) BUT on a stable platform windows
2000.
The combination of those 2 elements was not only good.. but great.
But vista is a whole different thing...
What cannot be corrected in vista even if they make 10 service packs, is a
bad design and bad ideas in the interface and changes in the philosophy of
how a OS should be working. I disagree with almost all changes.. and see
that they have done none of the changes that they should have done!

They cannot go back on those because they have blindly invested too much
money and effort.. so they will have to back their ill decisions even if the
waves of criticism will be huge.

They should have listened more ... now they have put themselves in a tough
spotI
I see vista as being a huge failure, as it deserves to be... and XP will
live and thrive!

 

[Dale]

Nicholas, is that your reindeer over there?

Dale

 

[Dale]

A masterpiece? I don't think I have ever heard that high of praise for
anything Microsoft has ever done - even by Microsoft employees.

Dale

 

[nicholas hall]

???

NIK

Nicholas, is that your reindeer over there?

Dale

 

[Martin Heathcote]

thanks for that cos they were so slow at opening and selecting

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[Guest]

Great tip.
It would seem that unticking, applying and reticking the box also solves the
issue (probably only until the next install though...)

If I can select 3000 items out of a badly designed database in about a
second, why does Microsoft take 15 seconds just to identify 1 last installed
program in a simple list?

Cheers,
Daniel