I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive. After
completing the install I installed XP-SP2, then installed NIS 2005, tweak UI.
Now when I click start, programs or settings or favorites, the menu's do not
automaticly come up, I have to single left click one of the 3 abouve before
the menu will display, I also can not single right click within the (ex:
programs menu and click sort by name.

I have never seen this before, TIA.

Try right clicking on your taskbar and then go to properties. Now go to the
Start Menu tab and then the Customize button. In the Advanced tab of the
window that pops up make sure the "Open submenus when I pause...." box is
ticked. Then scroll throught the list below and make sure that the "Favorites
Menu" box is ticked as well.
Hope that helps!

"SteveL" wrote:

> I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
> re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive. After
> completing the install I installed XP-SP2, then installed NIS 2005, tweak UI.
> Now when I click start, programs or settings or favorites, the menu's do not
> automaticly come up, I have to single left click one of the 3 abouve before
> the menu will display, I also can not single right click within the (ex:
> programs menu and click sort by name.
>
> I have never seen this before, TIA.

Thanks for responding, I use the classic menu view, I did try to use the
start menu it was already set to "open submenus", this did not work, although
I was able to right click witn in the program menu and "sort by name".
Does anyone know of a script to reset the settings from tweak UI? When I
uninstall UI it does not return the defaults of what I changed.

Thanks again

"brianb" wrote:

> Try right clicking on your taskbar and then go to properties. Now go to the
> Start Menu tab and then the Customize button. In the Advanced tab of the
> window that pops up make sure the "Open submenus when I pause...." box is
> ticked. Then scroll throught the list below and make sure that the "Favorites
> Menu" box is ticked as well.
> Hope that helps!
>
> "SteveL" wrote:
>
> > I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
> > re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive. After
> > completing the install I installed XP-SP2, then installed NIS 2005, tweak UI.
> > Now when I click start, programs or settings or favorites, the menu's do not
> > automaticly come up, I have to single left click one of the 3 abouve before
> > the menu will display, I also can not single right click within the (ex:
> > programs menu and click sort by name.
> >
> > I have never seen this before, TIA.

=?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
>
> I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
> re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive. After

One cannot LLF a modern drive. All you did was fill it with zeros.





--
http://www.bootdisk.com/

thank you for that info. why would 0 fill take 6+ hours to complete, I have
used zero fill before and it never took that long?
Could you please point me to an article related to your statement, I guess I
need to brush up.

"Plato" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
> >
> > I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
> > re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive. After
>
> One cannot LLF a modern drive. All you did was fill it with zeros.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.bootdisk.com/
>
>
>

6-Hours ? on a 60 GByte drive - did you use the manufacturer's tool
or some other utility. What type of interface does the drive use (PATA,
SATA, SCSI..) Perhaps the utility actually ran multiple patterns on the
drive, ending with all Zeros.

"SteveL" <SteveL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9451897C-243F-4180-8580-7FF9B26A2A95@microsoft.com...
> thank you for that info. why would 0 fill take 6+ hours to complete, I
> have
> used zero fill before and it never took that long?
> Could you please point me to an article related to your statement, I guess
> I
> need to brush up.
>
> "Plato" wrote:
>
>> =?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
>> >
>> > I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
>> > re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive.
>> > After
>>
>> One cannot LLF a modern drive. All you did was fill it with zeros.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://www.bootdisk.com/
>>
>>
>>

I fell asleep after 4 with about 80% complete, maybe 5 hours, IBM thinkpad
T20 700Mhz, 512 ram, 100fsb. I used Hitachi's utility (the manuf. of the HD).
server dual P3 1.4 tualatin's, accelaraid 170 w/ 3 18gb 10krpm. 64 mb agp
video, 1.5 gb ram.
desktop p4c800-e p43.2e (ithink) 800fsb 1 mb L2, 2gb pc400 dual channel
2100s scsi, w/ 3 36gb 10k rpm-raid 5, ati 800x 256mb,

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> 6-Hours ? on a 60 GByte drive - did you use the manufacturer's tool
> or some other utility. What type of interface does the drive use (PATA,
> SATA, SCSI..) Perhaps the utility actually ran multiple patterns on the
> drive, ending with all Zeros.
>
> "SteveL" <SteveL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9451897C-243F-4180-8580-7FF9B26A2A95@microsoft.com...
> > thank you for that info. why would 0 fill take 6+ hours to complete, I
> > have
> > used zero fill before and it never took that long?
> > Could you please point me to an article related to your statement, I guess
> > I
> > need to brush up.
> >
> > "Plato" wrote:
> >
> >> =?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
> >> > re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive.
> >> > After
> >>
> >> One cannot LLF a modern drive. All you did was fill it with zeros.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://www.bootdisk.com/
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

=?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
>
> thank you for that info. why would 0 fill take 6+ hours to complete, I have
> used zero fill before and it never took that long?

Perhaps you used a program that wipes the drive 5 times. Perhaps the
drive is going south.

> Could you please point me to an article related to your statement, I guess I
> need to brush up.
>
> "Plato" wrote:
>
> > =?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
> > >
> > > I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
> > > re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive. After
> >
> > One cannot LLF a modern drive. All you did was fill it with zeros.

What are you talking about Plato??? You made a statement like you knew what
you where talking about. Show me an article were it states that "one cannot
LLF a HDD".
No I did not use a DoD 5220.22-M format utility. The HD is brand new Hitachi
60GB 8mb cache.

Although this has nothing to do with my question, and you are way off base,
I HAVE SOLVED MY ISSUE.

"Plato" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
> >
> > thank you for that info. why would 0 fill take 6+ hours to complete, I have
> > used zero fill before and it never took that long?
>
> Perhaps you used a program that wipes the drive 5 times. Perhaps the
> drive is going south.
>
> > Could you please point me to an article related to your statement, I guess I
> > need to brush up.
> >
> > "Plato" wrote:
> >
> > > =?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
> > > > re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive. After
> > >
> > > One cannot LLF a modern drive. All you did was fill it with zeros.
>
>
>

=?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
>
> What are you talking about Plato??? You made a statement like you knew what
> you where talking about. Show me an article were it states that "one cannot
> LLF a HDD".

You cant LLF a modern hard drive. The drives electronics will not let
you. All you can do is zero fill it. Keep in mind that many people are
incorrectly calling zero fill utilities, LLF utilities.

Please raise your knowledge level
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...lfmt_what.html

SteveL wrote:

> What are you talking about Plato??? You made a statement like you knew what
> you where talking about. Show me an article were it states that "one cannot
> LLF a HDD".
> No I did not use a DoD 5220.22-M format utility. The HD is brand new Hitachi
> 60GB 8mb cache.
>
> Although this has nothing to do with my question, and you are way off base,
> I HAVE SOLVED MY ISSUE.
>
> "Plato" wrote:
>
>
>>=?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
>>
>>>thank you for that info. why would 0 fill take 6+ hours to complete, I have
>>>used zero fill before and it never took that long?
>>
>>Perhaps you used a program that wipes the drive 5 times. Perhaps the
>>drive is going south.
>>
>>
>>>Could you please point me to an article related to your statement, I guess I
>>>need to brush up.
>>>
>>>"Plato" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>=?Utf-8?B?U3RldmVM?= wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I hope I can explain, I just bought a 60gb 7200RPM hd for my laptop, I
>>>>>re-installed Windows xp after I did a low level format on this drive. After
>>>>
>>>>One cannot LLF a modern drive. All you did was fill it with zeros.
>>
>>
>>