i was *thinking* about iconcache issue, but it turns out it the icon cache is fine. I tweaked and experiimented a bit, cleared the icon cache and also increased it. Same thing. The icons come up instantly anyway.
Its like that the control panel windows comes up, but its empty. Then it takes roughly 1.8 secs..and then ALL icons appear, instantly. Otherwise the icons would come up slower, one after the other, but this is not the case.
Also..as in regards to aero...well booting on the FRESH partition i use the same hardware and everything (go figure)...and there is NO delay.
Needless to say with a GTX275 there is no need to turn down graphics options - on the FRESH partition basically i have the same settings/effects...actually more.
I am still sitting on this also if the problem is solved on the fresh install - but i want to KNOW what exactly the reason for this is....also in regards to know what's going on. I do think i am pretty savvy when it comes to Vista/W7, i dont do stupid things like disabling beneficial services....and according to logic W7/Vista should NOT slow down, regardless of the number of programs installed and regardless of the size of the registry.
From that point of view...there is a potential the same problem appears further down the road, just install many, many programs on a fresh W7...and then the same issues re-appears? That's why i want to know what exactly causes this delay.
The problem is that using tools like process monitor and also windows performance toolkit does not REALLY give a clue. I see roughly twice as much registry accesses on the old W7 as opposed to the new one....but still this does not legitimate an almost 2 second delay. 28.0000 registry accesses happen on the new one, 44.000 on the old one. Need to do more testing with the Windows Perf, Toolkit. Right now i am re-installing everything i need onto the new W7 - Control Panel is still instant.
