CAUSE
Visio dynamically builds submenus of the
File and the
Tools menus. When you click the
File or the
Tools menu, Visio looks for installed files in the Visio folder,
typically found on a local hard disk. In most cases, performance improves after
you click the
File and the
Tools menus once. If not, clicking the menus can continue to be slow
for a number of reasons:
- If Visio is running on a network, it can take longer to
find the installed files. The time it takes depends on the network and the
Visio edition that you are using.
- If one or more of the installed files are corrupted or
cannot be located, Visio responds as if the submenu is out of date and rebuilds
the submenu each time that you click it.
- If the installed files are located on a floppy disk or
CD-ROM, Visio takes longer to check the drive because floppy and CD-ROM drives
are slower than most local hard disks.
RESOLUTION
You can fix this problem by using one of the following
workarounds.
- First, try deleting the Visio.bin file, found in the
Visio\System folder. This causes Visio to re-create this file the next time
that you start Visio. Although this may take a while initially, it resets the
list of installed files so that the submenus do not have to be rebuilt each
time that you click one of them.
- If the menus are still slow to display after you delete the
Visio.bin file, follow the procedure below to add a Visio.ini setting that
tells Visio not to build dynamic submenus. This setting allows Visio to display
the menus more quickly.
Procedure
This procedure adds a setting to the Visio.ini file that changes
the way Visio displays the
File and the
Tools menus.
NOTE: If you have not done so already, install Service Release C for
your version of Visio 5.0.
The following
files are available for download from the Microsoft Download
Center:
For
additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the
following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
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To add the Visio.ini setting:- Quit Visio if it is running.
- Open the Visio.ini file in a text editor, such as Notepad
or WordPad.
NOTE: If you are running Visio from a network, the location of this
file depends on how your network administrator set up the Visio file structure.
If you are not sure where the file is, see your network administrator for help,
or see "About the Visio.ini file" in the Network.txt file in the Visio
folder. - Add the following setting to the [application] section of
the Visio.ini file: Do not add spaces to the left and right of the equal
sign.
- Save and close the file.
By default,
DontBuildFileListMenus is set to
0 (false) and Visio displays all menu and submenu items. If you
change the setting to
1 (true), Visio displays only the built-in top section (above the
dividing bar) and omits the list of solutions from the following submenus:
- File > New
- File > Stencil
- Tools > Macro
This setting allows Visio to display the menus more quickly
because the solutions do not appear on the submenu. You can view them by
opening a dialog box instead.
To view the solutions in a dialog box,
use these menu commands:
- On the File menu, point to New, and then click Browse Templates.
- On the File menu, point to Stencil, and then click Open Stencil.
- On the Tools menu, point to Macros, and then click Macros.
NOTE: You can also click the corresponding toolbar buttons.
