20/01/2022 Topic: Security settings block access to SyMenu 7 Gianluca Administrator	Strange behavior above all because you've got it on both devices (private and company). Can you send me in private your SyMenu configuration files (those ones inside the config folder)? I would like to check them.
25/01/2022 Topic: Security settings block access to SyMenu 7 Gianluca Administrator	Well there's a breaking change in 7.00 related to the management of working dirs (https://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuDownload.aspx#changelog). Before 7.00 the resolution or the working dirs, in some cases, worked the wrong way while now it's more consistent. I suspect your problem could be tied with this change. Regarding SyMenu's Extension Manager I'm very surprised that someone could find it useful. As you know for sure, ExMan works by killing whatever process opens because of a managed extension file and, after the killing, it opens the file with the desired program, for example npp. In other words, ExMan stages a sort of barbaric ritual every time it strikes, with dozens of dead processes on its path. It's like using a prehistoric club to play golf but it's the way Windows works and since I don't want to touch the registry... let's go with the club. The wildcard for the extensions of ExMan is a nice solution and it's possible I'll implement it in the future. I don't have a workaround for you so I fear you have to continue to add and remove registry keys to link your npp (it's another sort of prehistoric club but... it's Windows man...). I solved a problem very similar to yours replacing Windows Explorer with another more flexible program. This way I solved tons of Explorer issues at once and, above all, I customized function keys to open the currently selected file with the right editor or viewer.
04/03/2022 Topic: SyMenu looses its config upon Shutdown Gianluca Administrator	Fortunately it isn't. What does "SyMenu loses its configuration file" mean? Does the file exist after the SyMenu closing? If it doesn't exist you have a permission problem on that folder. Release the Windows permissions on the Config folder, try again and please report the outcome. edited by Gianluca on 04/03/2022
04/03/2022 Topic: SyMenu looses its config upon Shutdown Gianluca Administrator	Well... if this is the situation it's totally out of the SyMenu scope. If the file exists after SyMenu closes, the following file disappearance is something probably tied to Windows and I don't know what it could cause this, sorry. BTW does the file exist after the Windows restart and before the SyMenu run? P.S. I wrote "Release" but I wanted to write "Relax". There is a gold rule in this case: set the permissions to Everyone - Full control ! If this works, then you can calibrate the permissions to a more restricted setting. edited by Gianluca on 04/03/2022
06/03/2022 Topic: SyMenu beta 8.00 Gianluca Administrator	Hello. What's happening here? Why an 8 version? Well this release is a sort of milestone for SyMenu. Since the SyMenu first version the only requirement for the host PC was to have the .NET framework 2.0 or higher installed. This version has been heavily rewritten to implement the new .NET 7 framework that allows to include in the SyMenu package the entire framework. This way SyMenu can be executed with no prerequisites at all because all the needed libraries are already included. This means full portability for SyMenu. There are two cons with this approach. 1) The program size has increased a lot. This version weighs almost 70MB while the stable version weighs only 4MB. 2) The modern .NET frameworks abandoned the support for the oldest Windows OS (bye bye XP and Vista). The oldest supported OS is Win 7 SP1 and SyMenu will be forced to do the same. PLEASE BE CAREFUL We are finally out from the alpha testing. A beta version is available since October 2022 and it means it could be used in a more extended way. Anyway I can't assure, at this point of development, SyMenu is fully working, nor that your configuration files will be preserved with the next version, I can't assure the automatic update will be able to update this version in the future... So please don't use this version as your main one. Any help for testing will be welcome but don't do stupid things with it. Enjoy. 2023.05.28 - v.8.00.8548 (.NET Core 8) 2023.06.06 - v.8.00.8557 (.NET Core 8) 2023.07.19 - v.8.00.8600 (.NET Core 8) 2023.07.21 - v.8.00.8602 (.NET Core 8) 2023.07.21 - v.8.00.8616 (.NET Core 8) 2023.08.11 - v.8.00.8623 (.NET Core 8) 2023.09.15 - v.8.00.8658 (.NET Core 8) 2023.09.15 - v.8.00.8672 (.NET Core 8) 2023.10.04 - v.8.00.8677 (.NET Core 8) 2023.10.13 - v.8.00.8686 (.NET Core 8) 2023.11.08 - v.8.00.8712 (.NET Core 8) 2023.11.08 - v.8.00.8723 (.NET Core 8) https://onedrive.live.com/download?resid=D06528ECD5C93C26%21563&authkey=!ALysxsY6dHn6988 Here you can download a compatible version of the SyMenu plugin OpenFolder 2022.06.09 - v.0.9.0.0 https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=D06528ECD5C93C26&resid=D06528ECD5C93C26%21214&authkey=AMg192GAC9nahjo edited by Gianluca on 19/11/2023
22/03/2022 Topic: SyMenu looses its config upon Shutdown Gianluca Administrator	Is it possible that you AV software is killing the file? It would be strange because it's a zipped xml file and I never know about an antivirus that bullies a poor text file but just in case try to examine the AV log.
06/04/2022 Topic: Joplin Portable not able to start from SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	Hi QQQQ, SyMenu doesn't do anything special opening Joplin. You should get the same effect as you launch it with file explorer. Unless... you haven't changed the default item configuration. To check the item configuration try these steps: - Go to the SyMenu Configuration and search for Joplin; - Select the item; - The path should point to the file [...]\Joplin_sps\JoplinPortable.exe; - The Additional params (in the form bottom part) should be empty; - The Advanced tab should be empty again; - The right hand side of the form should have all checkboxes unchecked; - Launch it normally (not elevated, not with an alternative user). Then please report the outcome.
06/04/2022 Topic: Joplin Portable not able to start from SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	I don't see anything strange in the SPS but, since we are speaking about that, we can go a little deeper. The environment variable redefinition is correct by itself. Joplin is an Electron app and this kind of app is really easy to redirect from the Appdata folder to a custom folder. Why is the redirection a good thing in general? Because this way you have the program and the user data located in the same folder with predictable relative paths. It means portability! It means that you won't lose your data when you reinstall a clean version of Windows if you backed up the entire SyMenu folders. The Electron apps can be easily redirected but they need to find the right folders in the new place to work. With a redirection like yours (USERPROFILE=.\USERPROFILE) the program is expecting to find this folders inside the Joplin root: .\USERPROFILE\AppData\Roaming If it finds these ones, it creates a further Joplin folder inside the fake Roaming and writes inside that all your data. Well if you want to experiment, please backup your data before!!!! edited by Gianluca on 07/04/2022
08/04/2022 Topic: A Question About The SyMenu Plugin Gianluca Administrator	Hi Hubert and welcome to the community. Indeed I don't understand what you are trying to do. SyMenu is not a plugin but it's a full desktop program for Windows and, for this reason, It's not installable on any web site. If you explain to me what you are trying to do I can give you good suggestions. And probably this is a conversation more suitable for a private chat because I think it could be of no interest for the community users.
09/04/2022 Topic: A Question About The SyMenu Plugin Gianluca Administrator	The forum I'm using here comes from Jitbit. https://www.jitbit.com/asp-net-forum/
15/04/2022 Topic: Unable To Install SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	Hi and welcome to the community. SyMenu is not "installable" at all. It's a portable program. You download it, unpack, and execute. Who is telling you there's a writing error? Is it Windows? Is it SyMenu? SyMenu needs to write on its own configuration files. Do you have enough permissions when you try to execute it? Have you already checked if there's anything in your AV software log? Sometimes SyMenu is classified as a virus!!!!! Bad boy!!! In this case you have to convince your AV that it's totally wrong because SyMenu is a really good boy instead.
19/04/2022 Topic: Unable To Install SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	Well the solution you found is more related to installers while SyMenu, as I told you, doesn't need to be installed. BTW did you try to use the SyMenu zip package instead of the exe package? This try avoids several of the problems listed in the article. And above all, check you AV!!! I'm pretty sure the problem is tied to the AV.
07/05/2022 Topic: suggestion: Border Width Gianluca Administrator	Hi Kevin, Welcome to the community. Your point is valid so you'll find a more relaxed limit in the 8 alpha version that is available here https://www.ugmfree.it/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=840 (I hope I have to develop no more on the 7 version). Anyway... it's an alpha so try it but don't use it as your main app. BTW the thickness is not related to the contextual menu, that is probably the context in which you need it more. The parameter is tied to all the other forms. The contextual menu modification is a bit more difficult to get and I put it in my todo list.
07/05/2022 Topic: Does SysInternals Suite exist Gianluca Administrator	Indeed it has been added and, after a while, I changed my idea and melted it into the main suite. It was senseless having two separate suites when the search filters had become so powerful. Try to add a custom filter called ":pub sysinternals" and you will have the Sysinternals suite with no other programs in the grid. The right question instead should be: why the hell the NirSoft suite is still separated if the filters are so powerful? Well nobody has asked it yet so it remains a mystery...
07/05/2022 Topic: I see an SSL error in SyMenu, but not in browser Gianluca Administrator	It's not on you either if you are an SPS editor. The secure layer required by a website must be supported by the client and in your case the client is SyMenu through its framework and OS (in your case the .NET framework 4.8 and the Win 7 OS). When you download something to install from a local package, you use the browser instead. In this case the browser itself supports the required protocol. The PCI-Z website requires a TLS v1.3 so try to launch SyMenu with the -logger arg and you'll probably find a log file with this message: "TLSSettings - Error in setting up TLS 1.3".
08/05/2022 Topic: Does SysInternals Suite exist Gianluca Administrator	I studied a project that allows a user to create and publish its own suite from a different host than ugmfree. I called it "the private suite extension". This private suite thing is naturally a themed suite: a user publishes graphical tools, another system tools, one other school tools, and so on The private suite can even be protected with credentials if the owner wants to distribute it only to certain other users. Is anyone thinking about a paid subscription? In your case you could create your themed suite using already available SPS, publishing it from your website/blog/whatever, and being completely independent from the official SyMenu suite. Nice uh! It's a really complex project and I'm not actively working on it but who knows what will happen in the future... Today SyMenu only supports custom local suites along with its own suite and NirSoft suite (https://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuManual.aspx#CustomSuites). The custom local suite works like the future private suite extension but it can't be published and distributed automatically. You can create your SPS collection and distribute it manually... indeed it's not a great way to publish something. Yes when a program is added from any suite, it's included in the same old boring SyMenu. It's on you to create logical separation through the folders or different SyMenu.
28/06/2022 Topic: Drag and Drop support no longer available Gianluca Administrator	Hi fsr37, It's a really strange behavior and I suspect it's exactly tied with the W11 adoption as you assert. Unfortunately I have no PC compliant with W11 so I can't test it by myself. Plus I'm no more interested in developing on this SyMenu brench because I'm porting it to a new framework (.NET Core). So I have two suggestions for you. 1) Try to update your SyMenu to 7.02. Perhaps the new version will do the magic and restores the D&D even if I doubt it could be so easy. 2) Try to update to the alpha version 8.0 (https://www.ugmfree.it/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=840) that is written with the new framework. If neither works, let's hope that Santa Claus will bring me a new PC where this f***ing W11 can be properly and offcially installed. Well I love MS but this thing of cutting out so many "not so old" PCs from the new Windows version stinks a lot as an "Apple mode" behaviour even if MS has no interest in selling HW... apart from their Surface line. BTW please report here your outcome.
28/06/2022 Topic: Drag and Drop support no longer available Gianluca Administrator	Well... I did nothing special in 7.02... It's better that way.
01/07/2022 Topic: New version 7.02 ??? Gianluca Administrator	Hello Sir_X, You are right but the reason is very simple. The development on this version is over. What I'm doing in this period is to fix something if I discover a big bug but no more implementation here. So no more announcement even if you can find the usual changelog here https://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuDownload.aspx#changelog All my energy, attention, and interest by now are for the new version (https://www.ugmfree.it/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=840) that I suggest you and the other users evaluate because it's quite ready to be released. The more you test it, the less it will be bugged the day I will release it.
14/10/2022 Topic: New SyMenu version 7.03 Gianluca Administrator	Hi guys. This is probably the last SyMenu version for the .NET Framework. As you know for sure the future of SyMenu will be with a new framework that will relieve everyone from the burden of keeping updated the hosting system with the right framework version. But in the meantime we are still with the old good SyMenu classic. This version is a maintenance one with some bug fixes and a new unpacker, nothing to be really excited about. Stay tuned.

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