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Speed up the Windows 11 start menu with a simple registry hack.


The Windows 11 start menu can be a little slow, even with an NVME SSD hosting a Windows installation. But it is possible to speed it up a little bit.

Windows NT Neanderthal Technology.
Windows NT Neanderthal Technology.

Use this registry hack to speed up the Windows 11 start menu by removing the delay from the drawing of the menu. Why is there even a delay in the first place? Look in the Windows Registry for this key.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

And change this value to 0.

MenuShowDelay

This will help speed up the Windows 11 Start menu and make Windows slightly more usable.

The registry key that needs to be edited to fix this issue.

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