Here is a tweak which somehow was omitted. One which will raise your eyebrows. I found it several years ago on this
website created by the friendly and interesting
Gene Golding. I quote him:
"When you click the Start menu, there’s a brief delay before it appears.
You can change this to make the menu appear faster.
Here’s How:
Open Regedit, and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop.
Look for a value called "MenuShowDelay". If the value is not there, you can add it by right clicking the right window, and selecting New, String value.
If MenuShowDelay is already present, then the default value would be around 400. This is the number of milliseconds taken by the Start Menu to pop up. Reduce this number to the extent you want. You can even put in a 0 for no delay. I did this myself with a zero and I have to be pretty accurate with my mouse on the menus but I like the results of this setup.
Restart your computer to have the changes take effect."
One of the two registry cleaners I use daily prior to the final maintenance of my computing day (for which I use
ScanDefrag) is
RegSeeker. For those who have a reluctance to edit the registry this particular tweak is one of several offered in a direct and straightforward manner by RegSeeker. By the way the second registry cleaner is the highly regarded
jv16pt which, until its brilliant creator Junio began his career in software at his company
Macecraft, was freeware. The last but one version of that freeware seems to be the preferred one, version
1.3.0.195 ( a modest 2.12MB in size). Anyone wishing to try this freeware could request an e-mailing of the executable file in these forums. I would undertake that too.
This thread will eventually be summarized in terms of the tips and tweaks offered.
Cheers.
Ben.
