Re: XP-Home: Delay when accessing "Programs" menu

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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:03:09 -0500, Treeman had said ...

>
> Simon,
> Best practices dictate dumping your IE temp files, clear cookies,
> history, ect. within IE, then run disk clean-up, and defrag hard
> drive.
> I don't think the Start/Programs are cached as in temp files.
> Best,
> Treeman

Thanks for the hint. I rarely use IE so temps files/cookies/history were
minimal. Disk Clean-up did clear some junk. Time will tell if this
helped or hindered.

At the moment the menu appears instantly and was before the clean-up.
After the next re-boot we will see if the behaviour has changed.

Simon.
.

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