{"id":7568,"date":"2005-02-02T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/02\/02\/windows-xp-helpful-hint-o-the-day.html"},"modified":"2005-02-02T07:30:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T14:30:36","slug":"windows_xp_help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/windows_xp_help.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Helpful Hint o’ the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you go to the Start menu in XP, it’s very diligent about popping up the submenus when you just run a mouse over them. Which, for me, often meant that a submenu would pop up and obscure the menu item I was looking for, making me click on something else or wait for it to subside or do some other action to get rid of.<\/p>\n

Now there’s an answer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Right-click on the Start button. Choose Properties. Choose the Start Menu tab, and Customize, then choose the Advanced tab.\n
  2. Turn off the Start menu setting “Open submenus when I pause on them with my mouse.”<\/p>\n
  3. Click OK.<\/ol>\n

    It does mean you’ll need to click on Start menu entries to get them to open up, but that’s hardly unusual behavior, and a lot less likely (for me, at least) to end up with delays and the wrong things getting opened. Woo-hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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