Very slow menu reaction speeds

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Annit Bhattacharya

Hello,

I just upgraded Win2k Advanced Server to Win2003 Server Enterprise
edition ( it is similar in most respects to Win XP ).

The upgrade went smooth except for the delay in the appearance of all
submenus in all applications when I hover my mouse over any menu
option.

I have disabled all menu fading and animation effects and optimised
for performance as is possible from My Computer->Right
Click->Properties->Advanced->Performance(Settings). I have also
reduced the menu reaction speed in the registry to 5 ms. I have the
classic menu option selected.

Yet the reaction time for appearance of submenus is 5-10 secs. In this
time the CPU usage jumps to 100% with the application CSRSS.EXE using
99%. The subitems appear correctly after 10 secs or so.

I have noticed that submenus with items that are real files, like the
Programs menu and the IE Favorites Folders don't show this problem.

All others, e.g. - Tools->Mail and News (in IE), Tools->Send and
Receive (in Outlook Express), basically every such menu item with
submenu items in every application.

Any help in rectifying this will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Annit
 
Hello,

I just upgraded Win2k Advanced Server to Win2003 Server Enterprise
edition ( it is similar in most respects to Win XP ).

The upgrade went smooth except for the delay in the appearance of all
submenus in all applications when I hover my mouse over any menu
option.

I have disabled all menu fading and animation effects and optimised
for performance as is possible from My Computer->Right
Click->Properties->Advanced->Performance(Settings). I have also
reduced the menu reaction speed in the registry to 5 ms. I have the
classic menu option selected.

Yet the reaction time for appearance of submenus is 5-10 secs. In this
time the CPU usage jumps to 100% with the application CSRSS.EXE using
99%. The subitems appear correctly after 10 secs or so.

I have noticed that submenus with items that are real files, like the
Programs menu and the IE Favorites Folders don't show this problem.

All others, e.g. - Tools->Mail and News (in IE), Tools->Send and
Receive (in Outlook Express), basically every such menu item with
submenu items in every application.

Any help in rectifying this will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Annit
Click to expand...

I had this problem when I upgraded to 2003 as well. I noticed that
when a user logged on for the first time (i.e. created a new profile
on the machine), the problem disappeared. So, I went in and deleted
my "old" profiles carried over from Win 2000, logged in as the user in
question, let a new profile be created, and voila, the problem was
gone.

Try logging on as another user, backing up the important stuff in the
other user's profile dir, delete that profile (the "right" way...under
My Computer Properties --> Advanced tab --> User Profiles section) and
then log back in as the other user (the one with the problem) and let
the machine create a "new" profile. Hope that helps!


David L. Holiman

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73 de KD5YDU
 
What type of machine are you running this on? It has to run on a
system that is very fast, has a lot of available RAM, and a lot of
disk space for cache handling.

Jerry Greenberg
 
I have a Athlon 2000+ with 640 MB RAM and 40 GB hard drive with 10 GB
free. It probably isn't the machine configuration since everything
else except the menus is a problem.

Changing the profiles worked as suggested by David. I had to copy
individual items over from the backup like mails, favourites and
desktop files.

Thanks,
Annit
 
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