Ello! My bf has just bought a Dell Inspiron 4150 notebook and has been having trouble with a slow startup menu when it displays submenus. Has anyone had this problem before, and if so, is there a way of fixing it? Thanks!

 

this is annoying me now , i have changed the setting on mine to speed the submenus up but am buggered if i can remember how..

 

now i remember, get a small proggy called tweak UI from here :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp

when installed, it appears in the control panel, open it and under the mouse tab there is a slide bar to adjust the speed that menus appear.

 

Coud be programs starting when you boot up, try searching for startupcop.

 

You can edit it manually as well. The menu draw speed is controlled by a registry key called menushowdelay. The default value is "400" i.e. delay for 400 milliseconds before drawing. Reset it to zero for as quick a response as you can get.

This 'hack' works on WinXP and Win2k - not tried it on others. Don't do it on Win.NET Server, it doesn't react well at all! ... not that it really matters, and it wouldn't be on a laptop anyway... </waffle>

 

tried editting manually and it made no difference. Could this be a prob with the laptop in itself? Is tis what tweakui does for you?

 

tweak UI works for me.