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BetterRed · 03-05-2019, 01:44 AM

@Kevin & DiapDealer- devil's advocate post.

Do you know if the Windows 09.12.0 performance problems occur with both the 32bit and 64 bit installs? Do you know how many of each have been downloaded? Have any of the people experiencing problems tried running Sigil in Safe Mode

Unless someone posts an .ini file that Kevin and/or Doug say is broken I'm not convinced conversion of .ini files to UTF 8 is the underlying cause. My money's on a third party program interfering with Sigil, such as a shell extension.

Kevin might recall a long time back I was trying to inject videos into epubs and Sigil was dying. My neurons tell me it was dying in much the same way as is being reported for 0.9.12 now - running slowly with extended Not Responding waits.

The culprit was a specific feature (context menu tweaks) of a Swiss Army shell extension suite I was running at the time. I had been running it for years without any problems in other programs. It had several 'irreplaceable' features, which I couldn't live with out. So, we gave up on embedding video in EPUBs and switched to a game development framework - which was a much more suitable tool for the task at hand anyway.

I no longer run that shell extension suite - it had already been abandoned when I had the Sigil problems. I replaced it with a couple of other shell extensions that have active developers.

Windows shell extensions can scribble where they shouldn't but you'll never know if they scribble in non critical space - I recall Kovid opining on this 'feature' of Windows, might even be in one of his FAQs.

Which is why I ask: Has anyone experiencing performance problems with Sigil version 0.9.12 on Windows tried running it in Safe Mode.

Or better yet running it after disabling everything possible/sensible with Piriform's CCleaner. I've seen 3rd party programs running in Safe Mode that IMO should have been excluded, hence I prefer the CCleaner method. And I prefer it because I can selectively enable/disable startup tasks and shell extensions from one place. Task Manager can do similar for startup tasks, but not shell extensions, and you need to use multiple Nirsoft tools to do the same thing.

BR

Aside: I see I am using the 32 bit version of Sigil - and I can't explain why - any suggestions?

03-05-2019, 01:44 AM	#132
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,877 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Kevin & DiapDealer- devil's advocate post. Do you know if the Windows 09.12.0 performance problems occur with both the 32bit and 64 bit installs? Do you know how many of each have been downloaded? Have any of the people experiencing problems tried running Sigil in Safe Mode Unless someone posts an .ini file that Kevin and/or Doug say is broken I'm not convinced conversion of .ini files to UTF 8 is the underlying cause. My money's on a third party program interfering with Sigil, such as a shell extension. Kevin might recall a long time back I was trying to inject videos into epubs and Sigil was dying. My neurons tell me it was dying in much the same way as is being reported for 0.9.12 now - running slowly with extended Not Responding waits. The culprit was a specific feature (context menu tweaks) of a Swiss Army shell extension suite I was running at the time. I had been running it for years without any problems in other programs. It had several 'irreplaceable' features, which I couldn't live with out. So, we gave up on embedding video in EPUBs and switched to a game development framework - which was a much more suitable tool for the task at hand anyway. I no longer run that shell extension suite - it had already been abandoned when I had the Sigil problems. I replaced it with a couple of other shell extensions that have active developers. Windows shell extensions can scribble where they shouldn't but you'll never know if they scribble in non critical space - I recall Kovid opining on this 'feature' of Windows, might even be in one of his FAQs. Which is why I ask: Has anyone experiencing performance problems with Sigil version 0.9.12 on Windows tried running it in Safe Mode. Or better yet running it after disabling everything possible/sensible with Piriform's CCleaner. I've seen 3rd party programs running in Safe Mode that IMO should have been excluded, hence I prefer the CCleaner method. And I prefer it because I can selectively enable/disable startup tasks and shell extensions from one place. Task Manager can do similar for startup tasks, but not shell extensions, and you need to use multiple Nirsoft tools to do the same thing. BR Aside: I see I am using the 32 bit version of Sigil - and I can't explain why - any suggestions? Last edited by BetterRed; 03-05-2019 at 01:49 AM.