Yesterday, when I was trying to quit geek.menu, for some reason, it wouldn't quit. I don't know what caused it, but when I opened the task manager, I had a few dozen instances of geekmenu.exe running. It would make sense to limit it to only being allowed to run one instance and would prevent that from happening again to me and anyone else who may have ever had that issue at any point in the past or may in the future.
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This has actually happened to me on occasion as well, but very rarely. It seems to be just a glitch, but most likely on Windows' end of things. The reason I say this is it happened on my gimp portable as well as my portable xion, which is not part of the PortableApps.org group of programs.
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I would suggest that at most, it should be made a configuration option.
First of all, it wouldn't solve your problem, since all that would happen is that under some circumstances, geekMenu would simply fail to launch at all, and the user would have to be capable of finding the old process and killing it before being able to continue, where at least at the moment, the latest one started does run successfully.
Secondly, and more importantly, what about people who have more than one Flash drive, or who use geekMenu as a launcher for their C:\ drive apps as well? They could quite reasonably want and need to run more than one instance of it.
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Actually, only one instance is allowed from one path. If you try to run c:\portableapps\geekmenu\geekmenu.exe twice, the second attempt will just pop up the existing menu.
The issue with quitting was a bug and has been corrected.
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This has happened to me every time I use the drive with Windows XP Home, trying both the current stable and experimental versions. Whenever I use the menu, I can't close it ever, so I always have to use the task manager, and there are always at least three or four instances of the process running. I haven't tried it on any other computers yet, though.
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Yesterday, when I was trying to quit geek.menu, for some reason, it wouldn't quit. I don't know what caused it, but when I opened the task manager, I had a few dozen instances of geekmenu.exe running. It would make sense to limit it to only being allowed to run one instance and would prevent that from happening again to me and anyone else who may have ever had that issue at any point in the past or may in the future.
This has actually happened to me on occasion as well, but very rarely. It seems to be just a glitch, but most likely on Windows' end of things. The reason I say this is it happened on my gimp portable as well as my portable xion, which is not part of the PortableApps.org group of programs.
I would suggest that at most, it should be made a configuration option.
First of all, it wouldn't solve your problem, since all that would happen is that under some circumstances, geekMenu would simply fail to launch at all, and the user would have to be capable of finding the old process and killing it before being able to continue, where at least at the moment, the latest one started does run successfully.
Secondly, and more importantly, what about people who have more than one Flash drive, or who use geekMenu as a launcher for their C:\ drive apps as well? They could quite reasonably want and need to run more than one instance of it.
Actually, only one instance is allowed from one path. If you try to run c:\portableapps\geekmenu\geekmenu.exe twice, the second attempt will just pop up the existing menu.
The issue with quitting was a bug and has been corrected.
This has happened to me every time I use the drive with Windows XP Home, trying both the current stable and experimental versions. Whenever I use the menu, I can't close it ever, so I always have to use the task manager, and there are always at least three or four instances of the process running. I haven't tried it on any other computers yet, though.