Changing menu speed on start menu

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Paul

I have installed a new video driver, and now the menu
speed for items on the start menu is way too fast.

There is a Tweak UI setting under mouse | menu speed to
set this on a per use basis, but I was wondering what the
registry setting is to make it permanent.
 
Speed up the Start Menu
You can use this tip to speed up the Start Menu in
Windows XP release candidate 1. You can customize the
speed of the Start Menu by editing a Registry Key.

Click Start, and then click Run.

Type Regedit in the box, and then click OK.

Expand the menu in the left panel and select the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop folder.

Scroll down in the right panel and double click on the
MenuShowDelay file.

In the Value Data box, change to default value for the
menu speed from 400 to a lesser number, such as 1.

Click OK.

Caution: Incorrectly editing the registry may severely
damage your system. Before making changes to the
registry, you should back up any valued data on your
computer.

In your case you may want to increase it.
 
Russ,

Thanks for the information. It turns out that the nVidia
Desktop utility is actually resetting MenuShowDelay to 0
every time I log in. I have disabled the utility (losing
it's goodies) and now menushowdelay stays set.

Any idea why the nVidia utility is screwing this up?

Paul
 
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