Start menu speed
Ya know what I hate? I hate when I try to fly through my nicely organized start menu, only to get suck for a second while windows has to load the icons in particular program groups. Is there something I can do to make it so that all those icons are cached or kept in memory.
Ya know what I hate?
I hate when I try to fly through my nicely organized start menu, only to get suck for a second while windows has to load the icons in particular program groups.
Is there something I can do to make it so that all those icons are cached or kept in memory..... so that when i go to fly through my start menu, I don't have to wait for them to load? I have a fast system.... and the time for them to load isn't forever... just long enough to bug me.
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I hate when I try to fly through my nicely organized start menu, only to get suck for a second while windows has to load the icons in particular program groups.
Is there something I can do to make it so that all those icons are cached or kept in memory..... so that when i go to fly through my start menu, I don't have to wait for them to load? I have a fast system.... and the time for them to load isn't forever... just long enough to bug me.
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---Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.---
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Pentium II 450@504 4.5X112
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Quantum 8.3 Gig
36X Acer CD Rom
Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor
3Com NIC
Lexmark 5700 Printer
http://sandoval.dynip.com
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download tweak UI for windows 2000 v 1.33. There is an option to adjust start menu speed
Hi, Sandoval.
You might try increasing the icon cache size.
Use REGEDT32.EXE (NOT regedit.exe) --
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer
Add Value named "Max Cached Icons" (note the spaces -- wish MS would be CONSISTENT about this! grumble, grumble) of type REG_SZ. Set it to 8000 (decimal). (Default is 500, maximum is supposedly 2000, but JSI reports that 8000 works.)
Oh, and there's a freebie utility from xteq (x-setup?) which will let you set this value and tons of others. Pretty impressive for a freeware tweaker.
http://www.xteq.com/products/xset/index.html
You may have to restart once or twice (or change the icon size setting in Display Properties to large and then back to small) to get the new ShellIconCache file to be created and read properly.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Jim
[This message has been edited by jaywallen (edited 02 October 2000).]
You might try increasing the icon cache size.
Use REGEDT32.EXE (NOT regedit.exe) --
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer
Add Value named "Max Cached Icons" (note the spaces -- wish MS would be CONSISTENT about this! grumble, grumble) of type REG_SZ. Set it to 8000 (decimal). (Default is 500, maximum is supposedly 2000, but JSI reports that 8000 works.)
Oh, and there's a freebie utility from xteq (x-setup?) which will let you set this value and tons of others. Pretty impressive for a freeware tweaker.
http://www.xteq.com/products/xset/index.html
You may have to restart once or twice (or change the icon size setting in Display Properties to large and then back to small) to get the new ShellIconCache file to be created and read properly.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Jim
[This message has been edited by jaywallen (edited 02 October 2000).]
Wow that is one heck of a nice little proggie! Thanx!!
Questions: Exactly which setting will take care of my start menu speed?
This may be a stupid question.. but where is regedit32.exe? I'm in Win2k and I just can't find any regedit32.exe. When you wrote that, were you referring to NT 4.0? I dunno, maybe I'm just slow. Why won't regedit.exe work?
Thanx!
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---Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.---
**********************************************
Pentium II 450@504 4.5X112
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Quantum 8.3 Gig
36X Acer CD Rom
Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor
3Com NIC
Lexmark 5700 Printer
http://sandoval.dynip.com
**********************************************
Questions: Exactly which setting will take care of my start menu speed?
This may be a stupid question.. but where is regedit32.exe? I'm in Win2k and I just can't find any regedit32.exe. When you wrote that, were you referring to NT 4.0? I dunno, maybe I'm just slow. Why won't regedit.exe work?
Thanx!
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---Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.---
**********************************************
Pentium II 450@504 4.5X112
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Quantum 8.3 Gig
36X Acer CD Rom
Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor
3Com NIC
Lexmark 5700 Printer
http://sandoval.dynip.com
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yeah, 8000 is the string value.
for your other question, i think it is always the color of your desktop. i'm guessing that the reason you ask is that you want your wallpaper to be "seen through" the icon text field. but i don't think that's possible. but what i sometimes do is just set the desktop color to something that matches the wallpaper nicely.
for your other question, i think it is always the color of your desktop. i'm guessing that the reason you ask is that you want your wallpaper to be "seen through" the icon text field. but i don't think that's possible. but what i sometimes do is just set the desktop color to something that matches the wallpaper nicely.
