HELP!!!!!! Computer Novice Troubleshooting, WIn 2000 Start Button

[mhan80]

I was messing with my computer and i did dumn changes.
My brother read in a magazine how to get rid of the delay time in teh start button by configuring the regedit here is his instruciton


1. start
2. run
3. type "regedit"
4. double click hkeycurrent user
5. double click control panel
6. double click desktop
7. click edit
8. new -> string value
9. name it "menushowdelay"
10. click on it so its highlighted
11. right click
12. modify value
13. make value as 1
(do it all over again with a new name)
14. click edit
15. new -> string value
16. name it "showmenudelay"
17. click on it so its highlighted
18. right click
19. modify value
20. make value as 1

his worked in win 98 but when i did this in win2000 it did not work so i made back all the changes i made. Now my start botton highlights all the icon in each sub folder

ex. Accessories all the icons appear if they were highlighted\, but if i go to the specific program it still works. Is there a way I can make it look normal liek before all the changes.

thanks

 

[chiwawa626]

Get Winboost 2000 from download.com and set all startbutton stuff to defualt, that might fix it

 

[jaywallen]

mhan80,

Just for future reference, when editing the registry in Windows 2000 Microsoft recommends using the regedt32.exe registry editor instead of the old regedit.exe editor. There's a sort of "mini-wizard" (my term, not Microsoft's) for creating new values that helps prevent the user from getting a registry corruption or invalid registry entry. Regedt32.exe shows the registry in a different format from regedit.exe, and it takes a bit of time to get used to it, but it really does work better for most purposes.

Regards,
Jim