Sequi Veritas Posts: 5 14/12/2017	Sequi Veritas Posts: 5 Hello people - another newbie here with 2 questions. First off I suppose I should let everyone know that while I do consider myself to be an advanced user (sort of) I am new to Symenu. I have been extensively reading posts here and studying the FAQ's and SyMenu user manual for 2 days now and am not finding what I'm looking for. I'm pretty sure it's there somewhere and I'm just not finding it or not fully understanding what it is that I'm reading. More than likely it's both. Hopefully someone will be able to point me in the right direction. Questions are as follows: My first question: is there any other way of exiting from SyMenu other than by scrolling all the way to the bottom of the list of all the apps that I added? I added over 700 apps and it takes forever to scroll all the way down to the bottom. The ability to be able to exit SyMenu via the context menu from my mouse would be a nice feature to consider. Just a thought. FYI, I'm running SyMenu off a 256GB Sandisk USB stick that's plugged into one of my powered USB hubs. I do not have SyMenu installed anywhere on my host pc. I should also mention here that I chose the "advanced" option when I installed SyMenu. Perhaps my ego got ahead of me. My second question: Is there any way to isolate my native apps from the SyMenu app that I'm running from the usb stick? I'm already using tons and tons of native apps and services. I'm pretty sure that's why Symenu becomes unresponsive as often as is happening to me. It's never crashed on me but it often becomes unresponsive and sometimes stays unresponsive for quite some time. Any input will be greatly appreciated..... Thanks people.. edited by Sequi Veritas on 14/12/2017
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sl23 Posts: 285 14/12/2017	sl23 Posts: 285 Hi and welcome. I suggest you create categories for your apps to reduce the vertical height and therefore eliminate scrolling. If you do not want this, then use a batch file, NirCmd or a Task Manager to close SyMenu. I have around 600 apps and shortcuts and suffer no issues. I set them up into 15 Main categories each with subcategories, this is far easier than having one long list of apps to scroll through! Can't help with your other question I'm afraid! I don't fully understand your situation. Have you used an installer to install SyMenu? If so, maybe that's your problem? By the sounds of it, you've installed to a removable device. SyMenu is portable and using the zip package is probably the best way forward. Having said that, I've never used the installer so don't know what effect this would have on SyMenu.
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Sequi Veritas Posts: 5 14/12/2017	Sequi Veritas Posts: 5 Thank you my friend, I'll do that as soon as I get it figured out. At present I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the info I'm reading and my brain hurts. Data overload? To answer your question as to how I installed, I simply created a folder on a newly formatted (full format) usb stick and unzipped SyMenu inside that folder. Don't remember if SyMenu created a new folder for itself during install but if it did then I simply opened the folder that I created in a new window, made the window smaller and then simply dragged the SyMenu folder onto the main drive then simply deleted my old empty folder. edited by Sequi Veritas on 14/12/2017
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274 15/12/2017	Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274 My two cents. The sl23 advice is certainly the best one: organize your items because SyMenu works well this way and you too. From the next version you will have a special command line argument to quit SyMenu. So if you prefer to use this method you can create a simple batch file with the proper command line argument. Please await for the next release for further information. Regarding SyMenu unresponsiveness, surely it is not due to the number of local installed programs. SyMenu scans your PC at start and then maintains the entire list of program in memory, so it's not the reason for your issue. If you want I can try to solve this problem but you should contact me in private because I think it's not an interesting topic for all the users.
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Sequi Veritas Posts: 5 15/12/2017	Sequi Veritas Posts: 5 Thanks Gian, I agree and will contact you later.
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