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26 days ago Topic: SyMenu 8.11 Gianluca Administrator	Hello everyone, A new year has begun and a new SyMenu version comes with it. This release is quite a nice one, introducing some new features along with some bug fixes. The main new feature worth highlighting is the ability to enable customizable tooltips for Windows items. As you know, external executables can appear in SyMenu here and there, for example, when you search for something that exists in the host Start Menu, or when you browse your physical file system through SyMenu. In these cases, SyMenu shows a tooltip containing only the basic information it can easily extract from the file: its full path and name. However, if SyMenu finds a file in the same folder with the same name as the executable and the .tooltip extension, it will open that file in text mode, read it, and use its content to populate the item’s tooltip. For example, if you search for Microsoft Word (the shortcut name) and SyMenu resolves it to its target file (winword.exe), then, if a file named winword.exe.tooltip exists, SyMenu will open it, read it, and use its content as the tooltip for Word. For a clear overview of this new feature, please refer to the manual: https://www.ugmfree.it/manual#Advanced_menu_Options_Menu And if you have any questions, I’m here.
22 days ago Topic: Win11 client machine takes long time to settle Gianluca Administrator	Startup time SyMenu appears almost instantly as a system tray icon and starts flashing with a small red light, mimicking hard drive activity. Any other scenario suggests a problem with your system. The flashing phase indicates that SyMenu is indexing your Start menu and its own programs. It should take up to a minute on particularly slow devices, not more. Since you are reading from a network share, that is likely your bottleneck. Large number of files It is normal for a program like SyMenu to slow down as you add more files. In normal conditions, this slowdown is manageable (a matter of seconds), but your situation is far from normal. However, don't get distracted by this: your main issue is the overall delay. Generally speaking, 147.503 files in 12.977 folders are too many for almost any program except for a file explorer. And SyMenu is not a file explorer, even if it has some features that mimic one. I assume you aren't referring to 147.503 actual programs but normal file, so please use SyMenu for programs, not as a file manager. Anyway the real concern remains the 2:20–4:30 minutes required for a clean install. Shadohz wrote: So I guess this brings me back to my original question: is there a way to stop or bypass this on-launch scanning behavior? No, there isn't. And there is no reason to prevent it because this is not your real problem. And this brings me back to my first suggestion: why don't you try testing it by adding a single element at a time? If I were in your shoes, the very first test I would perform is running a clean version of SyMenu directly on the server machine, and another clean version directly on the client machine. This is the only way to accurately check a program's performance. Any test involving a connection between two machines is actually testing: - The network speed - The SMB protocol configuration - The network cards - The network cables - The Antivirus (AV) behaviour - The Firewall You are testing too many variables at once and I won't be able to help you until we isolate where the real problem lies.
21 days ago Topic: Win11 client machine takes long time to settle Gianluca Administrator	Shadohz wrote: I'm just going to migrate everything back to PortableApps. If it works for you, then it's a good move. Out of curiosity, I tried to reproduce your experiment and I hope these findings help others. My (huge) SyMenu is located in D:\SyMenu. Starting it locally takes less than 10 seconds to launch, scan, and run all configured autoexec programs. I then mapped D:\SyMenu as a network drive (Z:\). Launching it from there, from the same machine, still takes less than 10 seconds to do every action. I then shared the folder on local network. Launching it from another PC still takes less than 10 seconds to do every action. So SyMenu has no problem at all running locally, from a mapped network drive or from a network share. This suggests, as I suspected, the issue might be specific to your environment (e.g., Security settings, OS policies, or restrictive SMB configurations). While I can't diagnose your specific OS setup, I'm glad PortableApps is working as a solid workaround for you.
9 days ago Topic: SPS Builder Manual Gianluca Administrator	Thank you, an excellent work came out. I've just linked pinne this thread on top and linked it to the SPS Builer page too.