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Delays when using software like Audacity or MS Word #43

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@Peter-202122

Hello Alexander,

I am sorry to report that SmartSystemMenu obviously causes delays when using certain programs.

For example today I used Audacity (for the first time since using SmartSystemMenu).

There are three situations:

a) SmartSystem is started (and no process exclusion is added for Audacity):
I noticed a small delay when starting some of Audacity's effects: The window of the effect is on the screen immediately but it takes one or two seconds until the user interface of the effect appears (during the delay the window remains white).

b) So I decided to add a process exclusion for the audacity.exe in SmartSystemMenu:
Now things became even worse: There was a delay for the appearance of the user interface of Audacity itself. And moreover there is a significant delay when loading a file (mp3) into the program: the normal loading time of e.g. 4 or 5 seconds became 12 seconds or more (for exactly the same file).

c) I made a test and closed SmartSystemMenu completely (click on "Exit").
Now Audacity worked again as usually - without any delays. So these delays have to do undoubtedly with SmartSystemMenu.

I had noticed already earlier similar issues with MS Word:

a) SmartSystem Menu activated (and no process exclusion is added for the winword.exe):
A small delay (white surface in the editor window) occurs when opening a document in Word.

b) Winword.exe is added to the process exclusions of SmartSystemMenu:
The problem of a) seems to be gone but there are new ones: When typing (pressing a key) MS Word often does not react so that permanently some letter is missing in the document. (I also tested it with another keyboard - the issue continued.)
So with the winword.exe in the process exclusions MS Word becomes practically unusable. Currently I am back to the configuration of situation a) (Fortunately the delay when opening a document is not very big.)

I use a quite old version of MS Word ("MS Word 2002"). So I thought that it might have to do with this old version and decided not to report the problem. But now - with similar issues concerning Audacity - I think it is time to tell you about these issues.

Perhaps you can check the situation.

I saw that with issue #28 user @samkatakouzinos had also reported delays caused by SmartSystemMenu in other software (vJoy and Joystick Gremlin).

It seems to me that there could be a common reason for all these cases.

As already mentioned in my other thread I use

  • Windows 10 Home 20H2
  • SmartSystemMenu, version 2.10.0

Thank you.

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