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    • Jason FosterJ
      Jason Foster
      last edited by

      Hi, all. Notepad++ periodically refreshes the menu bar - it flashes a couple of times - and it seems like a ton of processing power is used by this, because my mouse and keyboard input freezes or stutters for a few seconds.

      It happens every fifteen minutes or so.

      I don’t see anything in my Windows logs that might point to a problem.

      Has anyone else experienced this? Help?

      Notepad++ v8.1.3   (32-bit)
      Build time : Aug 10 2021 - 00:32:53
      Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
      Command Line : 
      Admin mode : OFF
      Local Conf mode : OFF
      Cloud Config : OFF
      OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit) 
      OS Version : 2009
      OS Build : 19043.1237
      Current ANSI codepage : 1252
      Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll
      
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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Jason Foster
        last edited by PeterJones

        @Jason-Foster said in NPP menus refreshing causing computer to slow down:

        Has anyone else experienced this?

        Sorry, no.

        Thanks for sharing your Debug Info. With only the default plugins plus DSpellCheck, I doubt it’s a plugin causing the problem. (That’s often our first guess, especially for people who have dozens of plugins installed.)

        Do you use group-meeting / screen-sharing software (Teams, Zoom, or similar)? There have been other issues involved with drawing of the GUI elements that appear to be caused by screen-sharing software – since you mentioned the menu was being re-drawn, maybe it has something to do with that.

        Also, other people seem to have reports of high cpu usage as seen in Task Manager, so it might be a related problem. Maybe some of the investigations mentioned there might help you as well.

        (Unfortunately, when none of the regulars in the forum have been able to replicate the problem, it’s hard to help someone else to debug what’s wrong with their setup.)

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        • Jason FosterJ
          Jason Foster @PeterJones
          last edited by

          @PeterJones Thank you for the leads. I do use Zoom. It seems to happen with or without zoom running. Maybe it’s f.lux! I’ll do some experimenting.

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          • orhanodO
            orhanod
            last edited by

            Hi, I encounter this problem on every notepad++ opening. The main menu refreshes 3 times, and each refresh takes around a second. Removing “Explorer” plugin fixed it for me.

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