>>>>we've got a few machines here at work that are a bear to work with.
>>>>sometimes when clicking the start bar, the start button will remain depressed for about 60-90 seconds before the popup comes up ( if at all ). the same happens when trying to follow a link in the start bar to another menu or when navigating direcotries with windows explorer.
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>>>What kind of machines are this? With how much of RAM? When you click the start-menu, is the disk still heavily reading? Could it be, that someone was editing the registry & changing the time, in which to show a menu? Check the system for viruses also, in case they are not really slow.
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>>the worst one is a p75 w/ 24 megs of ram. there is no disk activity at all until the start-menu actually responds. do you know, where that key is in the registry? i don't however think that's the problem because stall is intermittent. the machine has the newest version of McCaffe on the system with Vshield loaded all the time. i am running a full virus scan right now. thanks
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>With the machine(s) you have, I see no problem in speed. With 24 Mb's of RAM, yer clear on it. I run Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, which handles the system calls very differently, I noticed specially how it works with sound & similar. I really don't know what could it have been wrong with this, I read Lee's email & as it looks he has same problem. Right now i'm sitting on a Win95 machine, because i crashed my NT box and can you tell me exactly how to reproduce what seems to be your problem? I didn't manage to reproduce it. Machine i have is p100 with 16mb of RAM. I really recommend you to switch to Windows NT, if you can, min. RAM i recommend 32-40 Mb & p100. You'll avoid alot of problems & get more from your machine, but again it's a persons choice & opinion.
>I will try to find the registery key later today, when I get my NT box back together.

i don't have to do much to reproduce the problem. just try to access the start bar/desktop/windows explorer. as for switching to NT, unfortunately that is not really an option for my company right now. it seems to me to be a problem with the software somehow instead of hardware since we have several slower machines with less ram that don't have the problem.