I made a post about this the other day because I was mindboggled as to what was happening, but then deleted the post when I thought–incorrectly–that I had resolved the issue after extensive testing.
Essentially, the issue is that entering fullscreen/composition mode is ‘breaking’ context menus in Windows 10 on my laptop. Before entering fullscreen, everything will work fine. I can go on for hours and hours, no issues with my laptop. However, the instant I enter fullscreen, my right-click context menus have extreme delays in loading. Again, I tested every other app I’ve used, uninstalled and reinstalled everything, system restored several times, etc. The culprit is very clearly entering fullscreen mode in Scrivener. What I can’t understand, for the life of me, is why. Because it’s not only context menus broken in Scrivener itself, it’s across the laptop–Chrome, Windows folders, etc. etc. I have to full restart the laptop for context menus to reappear (just closing Scrivener doesn’t help). Again, this won’t happen if ANY other app enters fullscreen, or if I never enter fullscreen on Scrivener. Plus, Task Manager will say my CPU and Memory are barely being utilized (CPU sitting around 20% at most and Memory at 30%–I also have over 100GB of hard drive space free).
Fullscreen is my preferred method of working since it visually eliminates all other distractions. This is a pretty big issue for me, especially considering even full system restores does not eradicate the problem. I’d rather not have to erase my entire hard drive and start again (though admittedly there isn’t much on this computer–I only use it for writing and it’s just a year old). Is anyone even remotely aware of why Scrivener could be doing this? Should I contact Scrivener support directly? I also have no idea why the issue resolved itself yesterday after restart #10, but now it’s back once I boot up this afternoon. Obviously in the meantime I can use Scrivener without entering fullscreen–it’s just…this shouldn’t be happening, right?
Update: because this is goshdarn wild. So after mucking about in registry files, downloading and uninstalling a million apps, file restoring, emailing L&L tech support (still waiting on a response), I got suitably tired and decided to take a short break. For this, instead of doing another full restart with my laptop, I closed the lid/put it in Sleep mode. I come back after 10 minutes, Wake it up. Everything is mysteriously working perfectly. I open Scrivener in fullscreen. No issues. No delays. Computer working as intended.
With trepidation in my heart, I restart the computer. Open Scrivener in fullscreen. It ‘breaks’ the laptop again. I intentionally Sleep and Wake it, then try again with Scrivener. Everything works as intended. I restart computer, instantly Sleep and Wake, open Scrivener, open fullscreen. Everything works as intended. At this point, I have no idea which is drunker–Scrivener or my laptop. Still would love to have any clue what’s going on here that Sleep ‘fixes’ it but a restart only does temporarily.
I’ve had similar experiences on my Windows 10 machine in recent weeks and have had a difficult time pinning down a specific cause.
It doesn’t appear to be specific to entering full-screen mode, as it happens sporadically prior to that for me and also after exiting full-screen mode.
What I found even weirder is that when it would occur in Scrivener it would also start occurring in Chrome. Right-click for the context menu and you can see the outline shadow appear and additional slide-out menu’s shadows where applicable but the menu does not consistently render.
I thought it might have something to do with the windows theme and transparency so I disabled that feature but no, it was still a problem.
I was wondering if somehow a chrome extension could somehow be affecting it so I’ve disabled all of the extensions I don’t use daily and I haven’t had any issues for the better part of a day now; I just don’t know why a Chrome Extension would cause an issue with Scrivener.
I’ve been running into the same issue for the last week. I performed several restarts and a system restore to try to fix the issue. Neither fixed the problem. Thanks to guymcperson for suggesting the sleep fix. That seems to solve the problem temporarily.
I don’t have much to contribute, just posting to increase visibility for the bug.
For what it’s worth, I also use Chrome, but the problem persisted after closing the browser and ending all Chrome background processes.
Just encountered this issue upon moving to a new laptop running Windows 10 1809.
Latest windows updates in place. Latest graphics driver in place. Latest version of Scrivener 1.9.9.0.
This laptop has the same apps and config as two other machines both running Windows 10 1803 (not 1809) and Scrivener behaves flawlessly on those.
Upon exiting Scrivener full screen mode the following problems are experienced:
Scrivener drop down menus disappear, showing on the outline of the menu panel.
Explorer context menus and Properties panels all disappear, showing only the outline of the panels.
Explorer responsiveness becomes sluggish.
A reboot is required to clear this problem.
Similar to guymcperson’s tip - when the laptop is awaken after it had powered its screen off (but not gone to sleep) the problem went away.
Has there ever been any attention paid to this issue? It’s 2 years later and I’m still having this problem…I’ve stopped using fullscreen but would really like to be able to use it… thanks.
Presumably, this will be solved with v. 3, currently at Beta 18, and hopefully to be launched commercially at the end of August. Nothing will be done about it in v. 1.9.
This is happening to me, too, and it’s driving me buggy. It’s honestly enough to make me consider giving up on Scrivener and just doing everything on Google Docs. This bug is also impacting Chrome.
Will current Scrivener users get this upgrade, or will we have to pay for it?