Here’s the real Start Menu entry

By Woody Leonhard

In last week’s article, I explained a Registry change you can make if you inadvertently “improve” the Start Menu delay time, making menu items flash by so fast you can hardly click them.

I made a mistake. I said that the Registry entry you should change was:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERDesktop

In fact, I should’ve told you to navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop

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About Woody Leonhard

Woody Leonhard is a Windows Secrets senior editor and a senior contributing editor at InfoWorld. His books on Windows and Office include the award-winning Windows 7 All-In-One For Dummies. His many writings cast a critical eye on the latest industry shenanigans.

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