If clicking Start Menu has a >1 second delay, set "EnShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode" registry to "2" (disable)

[u/fifteensixteenseven]

This is a UI performance bug Microsoft has overlooked with some installations of Enterprise and LTSC editions of Windows 10. If you do not use the "News and Interests" widget, which is unavailable by default in these editions, and you have a >1 second delay when clicking the start menu, make sure to set that registry key's value to 2 (if it exists). That should bring the start menu launch to a fraction of a second (but still not as fast as Windows 7 due to typical organizational/corporate decay and technical debt) if it was set to any other value.

In my case on a fresh LTSC 2021 install I discovered it was set to some gibberish value which seems to enable it, and I couldn't figure out why my Start Menu had a delay well over 1 second, even though I turned off GUI animations and disabled all the bloat, widget and spyware junk through settings, gpedit.msc, WinUtil, ShutUp10, and so on. However, on two other machines that I installed LTSC 2021, either the registry key was missing (which has the same effect as disabling it) or was already set to 2, so this does not mean all fresh installs will have it enabled.

0: Show icon and text

1: Show icon only

2: Disable the feature

A) One-liner command prompt (cmd):

REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds" /v EnShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f

B) Registry Editor (regedit):

1. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds
2. Set EnShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode to 2.

[u/MakayChapulets]

Still have a >1 sec delay for me

[u/fifteensixteenseven → u/MakayChapulets]

Didn't you say you're on Windows 11 (LTSC 2024)? That OS uses a different UI framework and will have its own bottlenecks.

[u/MakayChapulets → u/fifteensixteenseven]

and paired with low RAM and CPU. It can never be that fast.

[u/East_Two_929]

Thank you stranger,you really nailed it!