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Hi.
I added my own shortcut bar to the taskbar and recently I have a frustrating problem with it. After restart trying to open anything using shortcuts from that shortcut bar I have to wait about one minute till the bar becomes usable and during waiting time the computer is completely stuck. After that I can use the bar fine, even after hibernation and resume of windows the bar works fine. But after restart shortcut bar would become “heavy” for about a minute again.
Anyone know such stupid cases?
For information I would like to mention that my Favorites Menu and the Start Menu are also very “heavy” recently. I have many shortcuts in both menus but that shouldn’t make these menus so much heavy. Moving my mouse over shortcuts I see icons getting accessible so slowly as the menus would have 100 gigabytes, and that is weird.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks.The beat never fades!
u do only have 600mhz...400mhz is the leadt to run xp...stuff like shortcut bars just puts an aditional strain on it.
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There are tweaks for speeding menus, however I think your problem is beyond that. Have you run any spyware scans?
What icons are running in the System Tray by the clock?
sLLs
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This is spyware your computer has the potential to get much worse. The best solution is to purchase the professional version of ad-aware or my personal favorite pest patrol.
The freeware versions of these products do not work.
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"The freeware versions of these products do not work."
Says who???....
Link please to back up your statement..or is this "Just your personal opinion"
Millions of users have the free versions of Ad-aware..with no problems what so ever..
Alan56
Any fool can make a rule and any fool will follow it
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The free version of AdAware uses the same signature files as the Pro version, and does work! The main difference in practice is that with the free version you have to remember to manually run scans, but in the Pro version you get AdWatch, which sits in the background like a virus scanner and traps (most!) spyware before it affects your system.
Not 100%, but nearly, and worth paying for. No virus or spyware scanner will work if you forget to update the signature or run scans!
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Try increasing the size of your shelliconcache file as explained at http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=56.
It will/should speed it up if you do it (unless it is spyware causing the slowdown).
HTH
Bryan
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Problem started recently as before it was ok. I will try the cache file increase solution.
THanks.The beat never fades!
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Strange... browsing arround in the registry i couldn't find Shelliconcache following this advice http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=56. Bryan...
The beat never fades!
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if its not there just create it....
On XP the Max Cached Icons is set too low,
To change this go to regedit, location :HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/currentversion/Explorer
In the right window, double click Max Cached Icons,
type the value 8192
then reboot
You should see a big speed boost icon load, and opening folders.NOTE : If the value is not there, you can simply create it :
go to the above specified location
right-click an empty space in the right window and select « new » > « string value »
For the name, type : Max Cached Icons
then double-click it and enter the specified value (8192)
If you want to try the DWORD version :follow the above but instead of making a new String Value,
you should make a « new » > « DWORD Value » and call it MaxCachedIcons
and give it a value of :
2000 in Hexadecimal, or
8192 in Decimal.
HTH
Alan56
Any fool can make a rule and any fool will follow it
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