July 24th, 2007
Speed up Vista’s Start Menu
Posted by
Chris in
Technology, Windows
Normally I’m an early adopter of new Windows operating systems, but with Vista I’ve been slow to take the plunge. After running various beta releases and release candidates I was hesitant to use it on my ‘production’ computers. Well, I finally took the plunge last weekend and my work laptop is now running Vista business edition.
I’ve been getting really annoyed at how slow the Vista start menu is, navigating “All Programs”. I discovered a way to speed it up drastically. Customize the start menu and un-check “Highlight newly installed programs”.
The navigation will get much faster. Now if I can just figure out how to get the program folders to expand outside of the start menu, like Windows XP did by default.
