Vista Start menu slow | The Coffeehouse

mig
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

So I am on Vista RC2 and I am having issues with the Start menu, it is taking a few seconds (2-4 sometimes more) to open up a program folder.

In start menu options I've removed "Open submenus when I pause over them with the mouse" and the slowdown is still there; I can't help but notice a CPU spike as well when this happens.

As far as I can tell there is no indexing going on, but I have only had the system installed for 2 days maybe this goes away after some time? Either way it is very annoying now as sometimes I can't remember the name of the executable I want and I have to navigate through the start menu to find the program.

Has anybody else experienced this? If so, have you found a fix?

ZippyV
Fired Up

In all the versions I've tested (and now RTM) it happens with me too. Maybe it's because I have only 512 MB Ram.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

No problems here with 2GB RAM.

mig
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

ZippyV wrote:

In all the versions I've tested (and now RTM) it happens with me too. Maybe it's because I have only 512 MB Ram.

I've got 2GB of RAM, I am using the standard drivers for everything because for some reason the ATI drivers lower my 'gaming graphics' rating to 3.8 from 4.0 and since I don't game it doesn't matter (I prefer keeping a 4.0 rating with the stock drivers).

mig
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

Just wondering (and a small bump) could the video drivers have anything to do with this? Like I said above I am on the stock (shipped with the OS) drivers, ZippyV are you on stock drivers? Do you have Aero enabled?

ZippyV
Fired Up

Nvidia stock drivers, Aero and all eye-candy enabled.

mig
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

ZippyV wrote:

Nvidia stock drivers, Aero and all eye-candy enabled.

Hmm, I wonder if using the ATI drivers (for my card) would fix this? I don't want to because I like my system rating being a 4 even though the ATI drivers bring it down to a 3.8 for 'gaming graphics' which I don't care the least about since I don't game. And 4.0 is a nice even number Wink

Still, would it make sense for the start menu to be the only slowdown I've noticed graphically? I should add that when Aero is off the slowdown isn't as bad, then again when I tried this with Aero 'off' was through an RDC session, when I get home I will disable Aero and further test. If push comes to shove I will also try to install the ATI drivers from their website.

mig
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

SOLVED!!! Uncheck "Highlight newly installed programs" and the start menu works in all its glory again!

Matt_Rajca

Thanks!

mscrivo

Thank You! That completely fixed the problem. I can't believe they let this one slip through the cracks .. it's one of those bugs that will lower people's unconcious opinion of vista sadly Sad

NetMaster

Thank you very much. This has been bugging me for a long time. Unbelievable it made it into the release of Vista!

joe.regularjoe.006.9
I’m just a regular Joe, with a regular job...

Sven Groot wrote:

No problems here with 2GB RAM.

RAM, i guess its not an that issue for slowing the start menu. Fine here with 786MB ram and tons of program loaded in the strat menu. One thing I have seen that, do some multi tasking... and write side by side a CD and DVD in the writer, then suddenly close all apps, open the TM and you will see CPU usage to 99 and memory usage very less, in such time, click start menu, it slows as you he mentioned. I guess usage of the CPU slows up showing the menu not RAM. Smiley

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

I've noticed if you maximise WMP11 and set it to "Always Show" then it chops off the top of the start logo... I can see how, but why would they want it to do that? Another silly bug -..-

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Lloyd_Humph wrote:
I've noticed if you maximise WMP11 and set it to "Always Show" then it chops off the top of the start logo... I can see how, but why would they want it to do that? Another silly bug -..-

It's not a bug, it's by design. The Start-button is just part of the Taskbar's window area. Any window set to "Always on top" will be on top of anything else, including the taskbar. The Task Manager does the same thing.

...but always-on-top for maximised windows is a little redundant.

And please, please, please, for the sake of my, your, and everyone else's sanity, don't use manga emoticons. This isn't 4chan or GaiaOnline: we are people who proudly use their left brains.

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

Sorry, typo.

-.- is the one i was trying.

<.< <.> >.> are just stupid, as are many others.

And i know its redundant, but I have ti on for the scaled down version (don't like the taskbar version)

IMO, the taskbar should be always on top unless explicitly told to go beneath an app.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

^_^

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Sven Groot wrote:
^_^

stevo_
Human after all

What about

_-^&*{[(@@= this kinda thing =@@)]}*&^-_

Or indeed replacing alphabet letters with numbers? isn't that an early form of 'elite speak'..

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

as in 1337 = Leet?

Its a stupid IRC thing.

A question, w3bbo, why do you say IRC is like poison?

sonic74

mig wrote:
SOLVED!!! Uncheck "Highlight newly installed programs" and the start menu works in all its glory again!

Thanks from me, too Big Smile