Time delay timing too short when dragging mouse over...

Delay time too short

I recently did a bunch of tweaks from different MVP websites. In the process one of the timing things I changed did something that I don't like. The problem is I don't have any idea how to get that particular timing set back to where it was before I reset it. In fact I don't have any idea WHICH timing thing might effect what I did that causes the problem...

Let me describe what is happening that I don't like and maybe someone will know what I need to change. One place where I notice this change is when for example I click on "Start" and then drag my mouse over "All Programs" on the way to something else and then "All Programs" pops up immediately so that I can no longer see what I wanted to see where I was heading. The change that was made changed the timing such that before I made this timing there would have been a certain time delay before "All Programs" popped up allowing me to drag over the top of it without it popping up and thus go to what I was dragging to.

Any help finding what delay time I changed to cause this problem and then steering me to it so I can fix it would be very much appreciated.

THANKS!!!

Jim
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PeteC: Thank you so much for laying this fix out for me...

I think "Elder Geek" website is where I picked this tweak up too...haha... If I could have thought of the proper words to search for I might have found the help but for some reason or rather I was drawing a blank.

At 76 I am lucky to remember to put my pants on when I get up in the morning. And all the more reason to keep a log of the things I do to my computer and the programs I install and when as YOU suggested. I used to do that years and years ago and with each new computer I say I am going to do that but don't seem to do it. Thanks for suggesting that to me!

I guess I had been putting up with this problem for about a month now...haha... Its too bad there isn't some program that automatically makes a record of all of the changes an operator makes and of all software installed and uninstalled to his or her computer. Maybe there is and I just don't know about it...haha...

I have been fiddling around with computers since the first Radio Shack computer came out and have learned a lot over the years but I believe I have forgotten more than I have learned and so sometimes I feel like a beginner computer operator...haha...

THANKS again Pete for your help.

JimE
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Pete:

I think I just figured out an easy way to record my Registry changes. I can go back up to the next main heading which in this case is "Desktop" right click and "export" that to a directory I am calling "REGISTRY CHANGES." Then I name the file and in this case it is named MenuShowDelay 1 to 400.txt which tells me that I changed the MenuShowDelay value from 1 to 400. I changed the suffix from .reg to .txt so that I can later on read the file. All of the necessary info is there for me to see to get back into the Registry to change it back if necessary.

I think this will work great for me...haha...if I don't forget to do it...

Jim
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Thanks for the info Pete about ERUNT. I have that on my computer but have never set it up to automatically save the registry. I am thinking about doing that. I have never used scheduler and have no idea about using it.

My machine runs all night long doing a virus scan and a spyware scan. The virus scan (AVG) starts at 11:30 PM and the Spyware scan (CounterSpy) starts at 2:30AM and is sometimes still running when I get up around 5AM. AVG Antivirus is also active while CouterSpy is not. I have SpySweeper running active. Periodically I will do a scan with SpySweeper with the Antivirus on however the SpySweeper Antivirus is not on when while SpySweeper is active. The reason I am telling you this is there would be no time that I would want to schedule a registry save at night. I reboot my computer every morning.

I am thinking maybe I would like to save the registry on Bootup but I have no idea how to do that...haha

I think it best for me to change the .reg to .txt because I just might start the registry restore of that piece that I saved instead of looking at the text by mistake...

Thanks for your help Pete.

Jim
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Okay Pete I think I got it all set up to run at 11:30AM and to keep the last 7 of the saves. We'll see...haha... I am not too good at figuring out this kind of stuff though.

Thanks for your help and for steering me in the right direction as it is very much appreciated.

Jim
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