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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
02/04/2024
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You are right and in fact I'm not counting on mathematics but on psychology and statistics.
Me as a psychologist.
Why should anyone face a registration process twice or more if his credential can be reused for the same purpose more than once?
Here I'm counting on the boredom of the registration process I created (captcha, license to read, mail to receive, activation link, credential to copy and paste in SyMenu) and on the chronical lack of time of people that use more than one SyMenu installation. I imagine they are very busy people that appreciate everything that could be considered a shortcut or a time saver (and I hope SyMenu is one of those tools). So why make a useless and boring process more than once?
Me as a statistician.
From my knowledge the great majority of the SyMenu users are newbies. For this reason I imagine those parts of the users have only one PC and in that PC they have only a single version of SyMenu.
The remaining minority consisting of IT professionals, PC lovers, and other strange beasts (for example I'm a freeware compulsive collector  ) can create the user multiplication you refer to.
BTW I think they already fall back in the first category, the people who hate losing their time, so the problem could be really irrelevant. Anyway, among those people, someone creating different logins for every SyMenu installation may exist but what is the statistical weight of this phenomenon?
If a bunch of people creating different user logins are statistically relevant, it means the SyMenu community is so small that I don't care to count its members anymore.
What do you think? Does it work?
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sl23 Posts: 285
02/04/2024
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Ok, yeah, when you put it like that, it sounds like a good plan!
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g3o Posts: 2
03/04/2024
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Gianluca wrote:
Hi Christopher.I'm interested in your suggestions but they are not so clear to me.So if you don't bother too much, please explain them better.
Hello Gianluca
Thank you for your explanations.
These show me that I have completely misunderstood you.
I thought you were talking about donations and not just the number of users.
I generally avoid all services for which I have to register, only use google-free Android and Windows only with a local account (without registering with Microsoft).
I normally use Debian-based Linux (MX-Linux on PCs); I only use Windows 2 - 3 times a month and then I appreciate the fact that SyMenu (as a supplement to WinGet and PortableApps) allows me to get all updates from one place, similar to Apt.
My suggestion came from the consideration that I don't like a programme that logs and reports on the use of various apps (or worse, various documents).
A login to use SyMenu apps would never be an option for me, a login to get updates would be a compromise at best, but it doesn't meet your wishes and needs.
Most people are less extreme than me, so you might have more success with them than with me.
Best wishes from Switzerland
Christopher
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p1r9t3 Posts: 1
04/04/2024
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Is there any update for 4k monitors? I have a hard time using with 4k as everything is scrunched up.
https://imgur.com/sVcSHDw
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
05/04/2024
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p1r9t3 wrote:
Is there any update for 4k monitors? I have a hard time using with 4k as everything is scrunched up.
I'm very sorry for this problem but I can do nothing until MS improves their library to scale the desktop programs well.
In the meanwhile you can activate a workaround that changes the resize system with a raw but reliable image zoom. You probably see a little blurring on form fonts but the controls positioning will become perfect.
The workaround is described in the manuale here https://www.ugmfree.it/manual#Advanced_menu_Options_General
The last checkbox in the main option tab (Check this for issues on HD monitors) is exactly intended to solve your kind of issues.
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Markzxc Posts: 1
18/04/2024
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Hello:
I've been using your program for quite some time and was very happy. For whatever reason you asked that the users start signing in to use it. That I had no problem with, but since that update I have been having numerous problems. The first I noticed was it crashed when I tried to open the get new apps section. after a while I found that it worked (most of the time) if I gave it admin rights. Now, opening the options panel gives me an error saying rectangle can't have 0 width. Is there some problem I'm unaware of, or is there something wrong with my system?
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
19/04/2024
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Markzxc wrote:
Is there some problem I'm unaware of, or is there something wrong with my system?
Good question.
To give you a reply I need to know your system specs. Especially the OS version.
Anyway, if SyMenu starts it shouldn't have any of the problems you suffer.
For the admin requirement try to check inside the config folder if the file available has limited security attributes. Those files must be accessible (read and write) from your normal user otherwise Windows refuses SyMenu to read them when executed with that user. So this is for sure an issue caused by a misconfigured permission.
If I was in your shoes I would try another thing too. Check the files on the SyMenu root for this problem: https://www.ugmfree.it/manual#SyMenuPluginBlocked
It's usually a problem tied to the plugin files but it could affect any other file download from the Internet.
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Fabius Posts: 2
24/04/2024
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Gianluca wrote:
I'm really interested in knowing what you think about this new feature, so, please, be my guest. I can't begin to tell you how much I dislike this annoyance. And a horrid case-specific captcha. 👎
edited by Fabius on 24/04/2024
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
24/04/2024
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Fabius wrote:
I can't begin to tell you how much I dislike this annoyance. And a horrid case-specific captcha
Indeed I asked to know what the users think not because I'm interested in it in general. I don't care at all to count the likes.
I need to know the reasons WHY you like or dislike it.
So please explain your reasons.
And please read mine.
And BTW the captcha is not case sensitive.
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