by Waty Thierry (60 Submissions)
Category: Windows System Services
Compatability: Visual Basic 4.0 (32-bit)
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Tue 30th March 1999
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Controling the Speed of the Windows Start Menu
API Declarations
' * Programmer Name : Gijs de Jong
' * Web Site : www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/6311/
' * E-Mail : [email protected]
' * Date : 18/01/99
' * Time : 09:47
' * Module Name : Form1
' * Module Filename :
' **********************************************************************
' * Comments : Controling the Speed of the Windows Start Menu
' *
' *With this trick you can control the
' *popup speed of the Windows Start Menu.
' *
' *We have to create a new string in the
' *windows registry, the new string is
' *called MenuShowDelay and the value has
' *to be between 1 (fastest) and 1000
' *(slowest), it has to be located in:
' *
' *HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
' *Create a new project and add a module and a form to it.
' *
' *In the module put the following code:
' *
' *
' **********************************************************************
Public Const EWX_REBOOT = 2
Public Const EWX_FORCE = 4
Declare Function ExitWindowsEx Lib "user32" (ByVal _
uFlags As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegCreateKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias _
"RegCreateKeyA" (ByVal Hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As _
String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal _
Hkey As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegQueryValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias _
"RegQueryValueExA" (ByVal Hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName _
As String, ByVal lpReserved As Long, lpType As Long, _
lpData As Any, lpcbData As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias _
"RegSetValueExA" (ByVal Hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName _
As String, ByVal Reserved As Long, ByVal dwType As Long, _
lpData As Any, ByVal cbData As Long) As Long
Public Const REG_SZ = 1
Public Const REG_DWORD = 4
VBcoders
strValue As String, strdata As String)
Dim keyhand
Dim r
r = RegCreateKey(Hkey, strPath, keyhand)
r = RegSetValueEx(keyhand, strValue, 0, REG_SZ, ByVal _
strdata, Len(strdata))
r = RegCloseKey(keyhand)
End Sub
' Put 2 command buttons on the form and add the following code:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
On Error GoTo Error
A% = InputBox("Enter a number between 1 and 1000", _
"Start Menu Speed")
'a is the integer value of the input in the inputbox
'checking the input
If A% > 0 And A% < 1001 Then
'input is a valid number between 1 and 1000
'and a (integer) is to be converted in b (string)
B$ = CStr(A%)
'creating MenuShowDelay with it´s value
'(if allready exists it just changes the value)
Call savestring(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, _
"Control Panel\Desktop", "MenuShowDelay", B$)
'resetting computer
MsgBox "Reset your Computer", , "Changes are made"
t& = ExitWindowsEx(EWX_FORCE Or EWX_REBOOT, 0)
Else
'value is a number but not valid
MsgBox "Not a valid number between 1 and 1000"
End If
Exit Sub
Error:
'error, input was not a valid number
MsgBox "Invalid Data Input"
End Sub
Private Sub Command2_Click()
Unload Me
End Sub
