chef Posts: 47 20/06/2019

chef Posts: 47 I installed SyMenu today. So I'm a first time user. And first usage took hours allowing me to read a bit in the manual. And there are things I still don't understand. I tried to install the complete suite with its three groups (SyMenu, NirSoft, SysInternals). Only SysInternals could be installed completely. I guess about 95% of NirSoft could be installed and probably less then 90% of SyMenu. There seem to be different reasons for different portable tools why they could not be installed. Has this not been tested before release? Or have such tests being performed only with already installed predecessor version? Or have these problems risen only since the release? May somebody explain how to handle the observed problems? I did not yet take a look into what SPS is in detail and if this detail does sufficiently match reality. I.e. I've seen that various tools download of sourceforge or some mirror and that these downloads succeed for many while fail with time out for others, seemingly independant of size and bandwidth. This raises several questions to me. Why do some tools download of a mirror while others try to download of the main repository although I understood that main repository maintainer prefer to limit download of the main repository (to mirroring) and use download by users preferrable off mirrors? Are those mirrors hardcoded into SPS by the SPS maintainers or does SPS perform a selection according to some kind of neighborhood with the complete list of available mirrors as available by the repository maintainers? As I assumed that these download time outs were a consequence of a combination of too limited idea of source URLs in SPS and and download limitation policies by repository maintainers, I assumed that a repetition will get installed further tools while still getting time out failure for others at random. This correlated to my observation. Repeating installation of claimed available tools several times always showed this symptom, reducing the number of failed tools with source URL pointing to sourceforge or any mirror of one repetition to the next, making me believe of a dynamic download limitation by repository maintainers. Is my assumption of the problem cause correct? What is expected handling of this situation by SyMenu and its users? There are other reasons for time out failure too. There are larger tools which get downloaded but not installed as in this process, anti-virus protection takes its toll and time and seems not be expected by SyMenu. For some tools, download was completed and automatic anti-virus check started. After 30-70% of automatic anti-virus check, SyMenu aborted with time out. How are these time outs determined and how may they get configured, where? Some tools fail to download as the download gets refused by the repository specified in SPS! Didn't this happen to other users? What may I do to cope with? Some tools fail to download as the file or folder specified in SPS doesn't exist (anymore?). Didn't this happen to other users? What may I do to cope with? Some tools fail to download as the URL specified in SPS could (no longer ?) be resolved by Internet DNS! Didn't this happen to other users? What may I do to cope with? Then there are still time outs for other tools where I don't yet have any hint for the reason. Didn't this happen to other users? What may I do to cope with? While these errors happened only for the SyMenu group, another kind of error happened for both groups with failures and is the only kind for the NirSoft group. It seems that those tools have a broken SPS or package format. If I remember the SyMenu error correctly, it claims that the downloaded package is in zip-format but unpacking resulted in error! Do these tools need different switched for unpacking then in the past? What may I do to handle this situation? I did not yet enable logging. So I don't know if logging provides further insight to check for the root causes. But I could not see any option or configuration available to me to handle these kind of errors and limitations. BTW, I started installing as recommended in standard mode, not in advanced expert mode. I'm running on a i7-8000 notebook with sufficient disk space and its standard RAM speed although RAM module is one category faster. I don't know why the leading OEM put in those as I understood that even turbo mode of CPU will not increase RAM access times, just its processing.

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