Start menu speed

[Guest]

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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[ThC 129 0]

i dont know how but i was looking around the other day and saw something on icon cache on this board. Try increasing that i dont know what the setting is but i saw a topic on it the other day around here someplace.

[someone_nt 0]

download tweak UI for windows 2000 v 1.33. There is an option to adjust start menu speed

[ThC 129 0]

yeah but hes not talking about the speed hes talking about the icon cache. The problem is that windows isnt holding enough icons resident in memory so it has to load em when he scrolls the start menu. So TweakUI wouldnt help.

[jdulmage 0]

Try a program called Ultim@te Tweak, it has it in there.

 

 

 

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[Guest]

Ok!

 

but where can i get that prog?

tweakfiles?

shareware? freeware?

[jaywallen 0]

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).]

[Guest]

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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Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66

Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66

Quantum 8.3 Gig

36X Acer CD Rom

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3Com NIC

Lexmark 5700 Printer

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[TB99 0]

Click Start>run ... then type in regedt32 to get that started ...

[Guest]

Oh ok, i was going start/run

regedit32

[Guest]

Hey, that 8000 that you are talking about.. is that the string value?

[Guest]

And since we're on the subject...

is there a registry setting that makes the background color of the text underneath an icon transparent?

[Astaroth 0]

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.

[Yamazaki 0]

Sandoval, WindowFX or Winblinds both from Object Desktop can make the area around the icon text transparent.