You can speed up menus in Windows 8, meaning you can reduce the delay in the appearance of a submenu on the screen when you hover your mouse over a menu. How? With a little tweak in the registry of course.
This change will affect all installed applications that respect the system menu setting, as well as all built-in applications. And so overall you will make the entire Windows interface more user-friendly.
This trick is not new. It has been available since Windows 95. Fortunately, it still works and can be applied to any modern version of Windows, such as Windows 8.1, Windows 8, 7/Vista, and Windows XP.
Follow these simple steps:
- Open the Registry Editor (press Win + R and in the new window type regedit).
- Go to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
- Search for the name “MenuShowDelay”. If you find it, fine, if not then create a new string value here, named MenuShowDelay and set the value data to a number ranging from 0 to 600. A lower value means the least amount of delay before a submenu opens on hover, and a higher value means a longer delay. The default value is 400, which means 400 milliseconds of delay. Note: We do not recommend setting the delay to 0, because it will pop up your menus too quickly and make them unusable. Try starting with 200 milliseconds and maybe a little lower and gradually increase this value, according to your personal preference.
Close regedit to save the change. To restore the default menu behavior, delete the MenuShowDelay value or set it to 400. You can control the delay in the Internet Explorer menu.
