samo Posts: 3 1 days ago	samo Posts: 3 hi Gian, I have a very old symenu installation I'm using daily for many years. I'm using syncthing on my 4 computers, to sync the whole symenu folder, 11GB, and I noticed a weird behaviour. Maybe it was partly present before, but now it started to be very noticable. 1, The startup of symenu takes 1-2 minutes now. While "frozen", the splash image is displayed with 50% brightness, and symenu systray icon has a green square blinking rapidly in its bottom right corner. 2, at random time while using PC, symenu UI freezes completely. Sometimes while clicking on symenu systray icon, sometimes while browsing options, doing app updates, etc. This freezed state lasts 2-3 minues, after that, symenu continues to work as usual. This is not an issue of having all apps in root, discussed here on forums before. I have maybe 60 entries in symenu, apps and a few custom exe file launchers. see the screenshot here - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sar-DplI-VFQif7hj9xEHLD5KIV7cmWD?usp=sharing could you advice on how to debug this, before I embark on a difficult way - installing a fresh new symenu and copying all my apps and settings there? edited by samo on 17/02/2026
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1367 1 days ago	Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1367 Hi Samo, there’s absolutely no need to reinstall anything. SyMenu doesn’t write to the system registry, so it doesn’t accumulate junk over time. Your first run is exactly the same as your last one. Before giving you what is not a solution but a possible cause list, I suggest you try this: back up your SyMenu\Config folder somewhere safe delete SyMenu\Config\SyMenuConfig.zip SyMenuConfig.zip is where SyMenu stores its settings, not your items configuration, so you can safely delete it. When you start the program again, it will ask you to configure everything (language, license, privacy, contextual menu elements, colors, and so on). With a non‑customized menu (no autoxec, no gestures, no custom shortcuts), try using it for a while to see whether the issue is actually related to SyMenu. But trust the old man: this probably won’t be your solution. What you’re describing strongly suggests: synchronization issues antivirus interference storage problems If you’re experiencing the exact same issue on all four of your PCs (you didn’t mention that), it’s probably the antivirus slowing down access to one of your program folders. Synchronization can easily stall the filesystem, as we learned from another user who abandoned SyMenu because it couldn’t handle his complex sync setup (https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=959). If the problem occurs only on one PC, check the disk, it might be time to replace it. Let me know if any of this resonates.
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