From: waldo kitty 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
news:41348481$1{at}w3.nls.net:

> It's not really slow as in S L O W, it just feels a bit sluggish in
> comparison. I've turned pretty much everything off (I do that on W2k
> too the "cool" effects are cool once, maybe twice, but after I've
> seen the menu fade in and out a few times then what's the point? It's
> not like it's going to do it differently next time...). It's just
> that when I open a menu group inside the start menu, I can actually
> see it draw the empty rectangle first and then fill it - takes
> something like (checking) one tenth of a second or so (estimated of
> course). Now I have my old W2k (800 Mhz processor, old ATI Radeon
> 8500 display adapter) here to my left and it does it faster.

ya know? that's one of my pet peeves... who the hell cares about menus that
fade in and out? just draw the blinking thing and be done with it! what's
with all this "featureitise" crap like that?? that's a feature?
GMAFB!! furrfu!

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