Quick Launch menu slow to populate

[themaverick]

Hope this is in the right section. My quick launch menu takes up to 2 minutes to populater (even when there is no other software running). Once it has populated, then it will work again instantly.
Any way to speed this up?

 

[mickey megabyte]

do you mean your quick-launch toolbar?

do any of the shortcuts link to external drives, network locations, web pages or similar?

do you use mse anti-virus? i've noticed that to be slow at loading icons at times.

 

[themaverick]

The one on the task bar with the >> sign. Not heard of MSE anti virus so no. All the lings are to installed programs.

 

[mickey megabyte]

mse = microsoft security essentials

anyway, so you have a quicklaunch toolbar with a >> sign.

how did you make this toolbar? in a similar way to the tutorial i linked above?

 

[themaverick]

I didn';t realise I'd made it - I though it was there - perhaps it was there with XP and I was disappointed it had gone - that rings a bell.

 

[mickey megabyte]

by default, you'll only get the standard windows 7 big icons on the left, and the notification icons and clock on the right.

to have anything else, you would have to have done something to get it.

i'm wondering exactly what it is you have before being able to suggest a fix for it.

 

[themaverick]

It sounds as though I've reinstated the quicklaunch toolbar as per you tutorial - this is what it looks like:

http://www.woldsweather.co.uk/Clipboard01.jpg

 

[mickey megabyte]

ok you've got a few shortcuts in there, but that shouldn't be a problem.

i don't know what your problem is i'm afraid.

type or paste %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch into the search-box on your start-menu, and see if there's anything else in there apart from good old shortcuts.

if you wait, more help should be on the way from others.

(by the way - it's probably better to learn to use the snipping tool and the forum attachments button for posting screenshots )

 

[themaverick]

There are a couple of internet short cuts - are they allowed?

 

[mickey megabyte]

they should be ok.

 

[themaverick]

OK - Will have to see if anyone comes along with something.

 

[themaverick]

The quick launch menu takes 2 -3 minutes to populate - anyone any suggestions?

 

[windrider]

Mine takes a few seconds to populate when I first boot up. But I do have like 23 shortcuts there.

The only thing I can think of is too a icon cache rebuild

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

or too disable it, reboot, then enable it again and see if any difference.

 

[debugged]

It wouldn't hurt to temporarily remove the internet shortcuts from quicklaunch and see if it makes a difference. I think I remember this contributing to the kind of slowdown being described.

 

[Xparrot]

What anti-virus software are you using? I just started having this problem with slow-populating icons after a recent Avast update and from googling it seems to happen with other anti-virus software as well. Test by disabling the AV and see if that helps. I've solved the problem by excluding the "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\" folder from scanning during read-only access.

 

[meteorolog0]

i have the same problem, but when i check the dead links for shortcuts and whola it works fast

 

[TDPsGM]

I was having this problem as well with the Quick Launch Tool Bar (as well it would just Disappear every once in a while - but that is another story). So I decided to try Using the "Links" Tool bar instead.

This solved the "Disappearing" problem I was having, but I am getting the same 'Slow to populate' problem with it as is being described here with the Quick Launch Toolbar.

It sounds to me like it is not a "Toolbar" problem; rather it seems to be something else.

By the way, once it populates the first time, the next time I click it (and every time after that) it comes up instantly. Seems a little strange - anyone have anything further on this?