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delay in opening ctrl panel

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by hotrodgers

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is there a way to take the delay out of going into control panel in win 2000 pro?? when i click on control panel it takes a while to open up..i want these to open up immediately..i have a 1.6 mhz and it will not open no faster than my old 300 mhz...

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by pan 13 x

sounds to me that you either have a program eating you processor or memory, Have you tried to look at your system with taskmanager? you could also have a problem with your local security policy. short of reloading and tring a fresh start , I would look at the programs running and the resources they are holding.

by joseph moore

There is an old NT4 Registry tweak that works on 2000Pro.
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
The value is: "MenuShowDelay"
It has a default value of 400 milliseconds.
Try decreasing it.
Personally, I see no difference between 100 and 10. So I have mine set to 100.

Hope this helps.

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