Re: Very slow menus in Vista

Try logging on as a guest, see what it does. It sounds like your icon cache
needs to be refreshed.
Is your hard drive full, or close to being full? I've seen computers do this
when there's no more room for
the paging file. Looking at the amount of ram you have, I'd say it should be
at least 2 gigs free, up to
around 3 gigs. Defrag it might help too.



"Mary" <> wrote in message
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> My start menu and sub menus are sometimes very slow to open. When they
> open they are empty then take about a second or 2 to fill, depending
> how many icons in them.After opening once they are OK for a while and
> open immediatelty but then seem to slow down again.
>
> I have a fast dual core process abd 2GB RAM and a fast graphics card.
>
> I have unchecked "Highlight newly installed programs".
>
> Any help appreciated
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:04:50 -0500, "Apache -=CW=-"
<> wrote:

>Try logging on as a guest, see what it does. It sounds like your icon cache
>needs to be refreshed.
>Is your hard drive full, or close to being full? I've seen computers do this
>when there's no more room for
>the paging file. Looking at the amount of ram you have, I'd say it should be
>at least 2 gigs free, up to
>around 3 gigs. Defrag it might help too.

Interesting thought on the icon cache. You can look for a file in your
c:\users\name\appdata\local (hidden file AFAIR) called iconcache.db
and delete it. Then reboot.